This is original content. AI was not used anywhere except for the bottom right image, simply because I could not find one similar enough to what I needed. This took around 6 hours to make.
Transcription (for the visually impaired)
(I tried my best)
The background is an iceberg with 6 levels, denoting 6 different levels of privacy.
The tip of the iceberg is titled “The Brainwashed” with a quote beside it that says “I have nothing to hide”. The logos depicted in this section are:
- Apple
- TikTok
- PayPal
- Google Chrome
- CashApp
- Samsung
- Steam
- Microsoft Windows
- Ring (Security Camera)
- YouTube
- Amazon
- Discord
- Gmail
- ChatGPT
The surface section of the iceberg is titled “As seen on TV” with a quote beside it that says “This video is sponsored by…”. The logos depicted in this section are:
An underwater section of the iceberg is titled “The Beginner” with a quote beside it that says “I don’t like hackers and spying”. The logos depicted in this section are:
- Telegram
- Authy
- Brave Browser
- Privacy.com (Virtual Cards)
- DuckDuckGo
- iMessage
- Proton Mail
- AdBlock (Browser Extension)
A lower section of the iceberg is titled “The Privacy Enthusiast” with a quote beside it that says “I have nothing I want to show”. The logos depicted in this section are:
An even lower section of the iceberg is titled “The Privacy Activist” with a quote beside it that says “Privacy is a human right”. The logos depicted in this section are:
- Monero
- GrapheneOS
- Vanadium (Web Browser)
- KeePassDX
- SimpleX Chat
- Accrescent
- SearXNG
- Aegis Authenticator
- OpenWrt
- Mullvad VPN
- An illustration of physical cash
The lowest portion of the iceberg is titled “The Ghost”. There is a quote beside it that has been intentionally redacted. The images depicted in this section are:
- A cancel sign over a mobile phone, symbolizing “no electronics”
- An illustration of a log cabin, symbolizing “living in a log cabin in the woods”
- A picture of gold bars, symbolizing “paying only in gold”
- A picture of a death certificate, symbolizing “faking your own death”
- An AI generated picture of a person wearing a black hoodie, a baseball cap, a face mask, and reflective sunglasses, symbolizing “hiding ones identity in public”
End of transcription.
The problem with mullvad is a lot of its IPs are flagged as bots or denied around the web. Is there a good VPN that will still give access to most of the web?
I’ve never had that issue with Mullvad unless it was for a streaming app.
Sometimes I get detected and it makes me do a cloud flare “I’m not a robot” page.
I just got Mullvad again and the main site I get flagged on is reddit. Which I wouldn’t care but the state of search is so abysmal that I still regularly have to query reddit to find what I’m actually looking for (for some types of info anyway). It’s fine though, there’s some mullvad servers that haven’t been flagged yet so I just server hop as needed. Less convenient, but not terrible
LibRedirect works for me
LibRedirect + Libreddit instances is fantastic.
Honestly, Reddit is one of the few services that can be redirected easily now. Invidious, Freetube, NewPipe, etc. is constantly being nuked by Youtube, and while Twitter redirects are still alive, they were dead for a short period, ProxiTok never works, nor does Proxigram instances…
Oh yeah! Reddit does that? But I just login with a throwaway account.
Sometimes after logging in, it will say there was a problem or just reload the login page.
If that happens just click login again and it will load normally.
Yeah, it’ll give me one of these screens with most mullvad servers. I don’t really interact on reddit anymore so I refuse to log in even with a throwaway (on my phone at least). Maybe there’s something to it, maybe it’s my own silly little battle against rude web design 😅
when this happens, just hit “reconnect” on the VPN and refresh - usually after one or two reconnects Reddit won’t have blocked that IP yet, IME
Try a Reddit mirror like RedLib, i.e. https://redlib.privacyredirect.com/
It’s so cringe how they make everything cutesy
Reddit is the ONLY website I use that outright denies me entry from my VPS (unless you count the “sorry we’re not available in Europe because we’d have to abide by GDPR”). Even Youtube lifts the ban after waiting for a while!
All of us.
Interestingly enough, Reddit - the only website I use that denied me entry from my VPS - doesn’t block Tor at all.
Interesting, I’ll have to try that out!
If you’re Privacy Activist tier, that CF CAPTCHA should spin infinitely. Otherwise, you’re being fingerprinted.
I’ve been running into this a lot with Proton, too.
Gotta use less popular locations close to what you need. As a german I have mostly been using Finland and other smaller eastern European countries, those generally work just fine. Germany itself barely ever.
Those are mutually exclusive.
Just avoid those shitty websites that don’t respect their user’s privacy.
I’ve had fewer issues when using servers in Asia.