Developers of virtual private network (VPN) apps are reporting that their products are again being pulled from Apple’s App Store in Russia. This is an unacceptable crackdown on a vital tool to prot…

Developers of virtual private network (VPN) apps are reporting that their products are again being pulled from Apple’s App Store in Russia. This is an unacceptable crackdown on a vital tool to protect privacy and speech online. Why? VPNs give people a way to control their own online activities. When you visit a website through…

  • oneser@lemmy.zip
    7·
    17 hours ago

    Australia, UK, Europe are all doing the same at the moment. Even using a VPN now is a heap more effort already due to VPN blocked websites and apps.

    • Reannlegge@lemmy.ca
      3·
      16 hours ago

      I personally prefer the security of my LAN, it has a Flint 2 running vanilla OpenWRT with lots of vLANs. As much as I believe do not trust your ISP to have your back I have 2 static IP addresses, one was going to host my email and the other would be my internet stuff. I than use wireguard to VPN into my LAN when I am out and about. I have not come across a VPN blocked website, but I have a very finally tuned pihole setup.

      I am also not out and about much that I actually see any site that may have a VPN blocking site, but again my pihole is very finally tuned, some times I see the please turn off your ad blocker popup so I find the article published elsewhere, or if it is arstechnica (I think) I still have 98 years or something like that until I can read an article from them.

      I also self host a lot of things so it is not like I am worried to much. I read up on my cities transit app and found out how horrible it actually is so I built my own (sorta) it tells me what buses I need to take to get places and it tells me where every operational bus is in the city. I realize it is vibe coded so it needs work, work I will be giving it when I get a new phone as I get out of the Apple Garden.

      • oneser@lemmy.zip
        2·
        14 hours ago

        Awesome work on your setup! Unfortunately for me, that would require an amount of time to learn the missing skills, which I just do not have. So, I am accepting being stuck in my world for now and learning as much as I can going on.

        I am eternally grateful for the FOSS community and would be at a loss without many projects, as they allow me to enjoy a lot of services as privately as I reasonably can.