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The best thing is that they accept crypto. I wouldn't want to pay for a VPN with a credit card in my name.




But you have to get money into your crypto wallet somehow, which makes it relatively easy to deanonymize for most users (serious crypto privacy enthusiasts could of course pay cash for their crypto or perhaps mine it themselves) if they're looking at your traffic specifically, but hard if you're only worried about bulk collection.

IMO the coolest privacy option they have is to literally mail them an envelope full of cash with just your account's cash payment ID.


You can exchange common coins into Monero and Monero is fully private.

> I wouldn't want to pay for a VPN with a credit card in my name.

Wow, you must be using the VPN for some seriously shady stuff.


Back when I was doing that uber-shady business of torrenting, and this kind of VPN was much less-common than it is today, I paid for VPN access with crypto.

I'd gather a small amount of that up (however I did that), keep it in an offline wallet, and spend it on VPN service every now and then.

It just seemed like the right way to go about things.

(And then I lost that wallet, because of course I did, with about $14 worth of BTC in it. I didn't care enough at that time to see if I'd backed it up properly; I wasn't planning on using it for anything anymore anyway. That was in 2014 and those backups are waaaay gone now, but it'd be around $2k worth of BTC today -- plenty to buy some DDR5 RAM. Whoopsie-doodle!)


Enough to buy like 512MB of DDR5 RAM maybe

...then I'll just have to learn how to get stuff done with 512MB of RAM.

(I'm sure that browsers like lynx still work just like they did in 2001, and that pine can still read mail. Shouldn't be a problem, right?)


links2 is still a work horse in 2025 for occasional debugging.

I know of links and have used it, but I don't think I've ever used links2.

Am I correct to assume that links2 is more of the same/better?

(Also: Your comment seems perfectly sane, but it was already marked as "flagged" by the time I saw it 18 minutes after it was submitted. I vouched for it.

But I wonder: Whose ruffles did you panty in order for your comments to land this way?)


> Am I correct to assume that links2 is more of the same/better?

Most distributions install links2 as links.

> But I wonder: Whose ruffles did you panty in order for your comments to land this way?)

I don't know, but most people on voting based forums don't like what I have to say, even though I am almost always right. For example, when I say that Linux is an operating system using a software development methodology from the 1970s, that hurts some people's feelings. Similarly, when I say that I use Linux, because I am poor (read: not a decabillionaire), not because it's good (Mac/Windows are obviously even worse), that just rubs people the wrong way. So, ultimately, it's because most people are political and stupid in nature.

I think almost everything sucks relative to my standards, which is only natural, because I am engineer and I only exist to fix broken shit.


Naw you'll have to email dang and ask him they have a auto system, I got auto shadow banned once and had to email them, they said I didn't do anything wrong and then restored all my comments. I went like 3 months thinking nobody liked my comments enough to give me an up point. Worth reaching out about their auto mod is sensitive

What actual extra privacy does that add though? You still need to connect to them from your IP address, which can be traced back to you.



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