matlag

If you’re the sole user of your VPS, all the sites you visit can identify you based on your IP only. Behind a VPN, they have to rely on cookies, fingerprinting, etc. (of course assuming you don’t just login…).

Some VPN suppliers have a no log policy and have been audited to confirm they had indeed no log.

Mullvad was audited multiple times and the audits confirmed no log and no information leak. They don’t even store customers info: you have a customer number, and you’d better not lose it. Sure if you pay by credit card, they can trace you back.

They’re transparent about issues they face (2 years ago they reported a weakness allowing websites to identify the same browser switching outgoing servers) and the fix they use.

So yes, they are one of the very very few services I trust.

VPS supplier are just as likely as any other company to sell, leak or disclose on request your information.

1 cent for that cause was already too much!

Because where I go on Internet is not the business of my ISP, and it’s not data I want them to store and sell to whoever will pay for it? I am now behind a VPN 100% of the time.

Based on my virtual location, YT doesn’t force me to connect to watch videos (in some parts of the world, they seem to do!), and I won’t be stopped by age verification crap in my country.

I wish I was that optimistic, but I lived through the infamous Win ME, 2k, 7, 8, 10 now 11, and every time we thought “this time they’re toast! It’s the time of Linux!” and it didn’t happen.

Maybe this time? Or maybe not…

This! I’m probably ready to pay a bit more to NOT be under constant surveillance by a car maker!

Their intent was to block third party app, not GOS specifically. GOS not working is a side effect.

Why blocking third party? As said below: to force the use of privacy invasive apps, and collect more data.

Now they will change course only if they suffer from a sufficient backlash. And that needs to be painful enough to deter other car makers from doing the same.

Sounds like the upcoming Slate. But it’s more of a pick-up platfom. I hope they keep going and extend their product line.

Maybe I wasn’t clear, but my point was these requirements are indeed driven by the studios and the GPU makers.

These are marketing decisions, because the day it stops (imagine studio claiming “we’re good enough, no more need to improve graphics!” then GPU last 10 years or more before needing replacement (I write a conservative 10, as they are heavily stressed while in use, but a computer can last longer than that).

Similarly, if graphics stop improving, studios will have a much harder time coming up with new games players want to buy. They will need to actually innovate in games mechanisms or find other added value features, or accept that the market will significantly decrease as new shiny graphics on the same game will no longer work.

So game advertisements are all about blasting you with spectacular graphics and animations.

Ok, I’m not a gamer, and I have a real honest question: we had fun with gamesetsin the 90’s. We had LAN games in the 2000’s, and over Internet quickly after. People were spending hours, days playing. Each new GPU was so much better, sharper pictures, “so realistic”, etc.

Are you genuinely having more fun now than with good games from 10years ago? Even 15years ago??

Because it looks like this whole requirements thing is pure marketing, and studios needing to keep selling: “Look, shinier graphics that will make the previous generation of games you loved and found incredibly sharp and detailed when theé came out look mild and of bad quality now!”

There was pretty much nowhere else he would have been safe from being extradited to the US, if not immediately, then as a political bargain.

You’re both correct. There was a lot of changes after him thanks to him. But majority of people still don’t give a shit.