PSA: VPNs can and probably do compromise your privacy

[Redroyach]

If I understand it correctly I2P seems to have some level of resistance to traffic analysis thanks to their garlic routing and network design, but it would be better if they added meaningfully random delays or decoy traffic.

Research Confirms the Reliability of the I2P Network : DIVA.EXCHANGE

[No_Name]

@scary

it’s expensive, painfully slow (in anonymous mode or even without), has too much competition and a small user base, which makes users stand out more.

I agree that it’s painfully slow in anonymous mode, however I don’t necessarily agree that it’s painfully slow in regular mode. NYM has been making improvements on every update and it seems to be getting better and better imo. It does have a small user base, but that didn’t stop me from getting a two year subscription for $60. We can’t expect good privacy tools such as NYM to survive if we do not stand behind them. As long as they’re constantly improving, I feel that I’ve made a good investment.

Btw, I don’t know how long their special is going to last for the 2 year/$60 subscription, but that’s the price as of now, so anybody that’s interested probably shouldn’t procrastinate too long, just sayin.

[User53]

@temuSnowden

In general, you should probably route traffic away from all countries that are on good terms with the US, they all share intelligence. This usually boils down to China, Russia, India being the only real options.

This doesnt’t sound like good advice consideringthe surveilance in these countries.

@gapless

Stopped reading after this. Dude thinks only the west is civilized.

I think he was listing these as multiple attributes, so he menas that the country should be civilized AND in the west, which implies their a countries that are in the west both not civilized and also countries othside the west, which are civilized.

@temuSnowden

[1] except on public WiFi and untrusted networks, which you should avoid using.

Why should they be avoided? If you only connect to https/onion sites then their is nothing really dangerous about public networks.
Also public networks are a possible fallback if all other methods of anonymous networking like VPN and Tor fail.

[win11.shading291]

I’m not sure, I bookmarked it to try it out eventually.

[M-A9NPV]

So what does this mean for casual techies who sincerely care about their privacy?

[Pedja]

Mossad isn’t after me either, so Mullvad is just fine.

[nym-product]

@scary

fair enough, both modes are likely slow for me due to network conditions. i wonder how well anonymous mode would work with something like browsh for extremely high latency browsing or other tasks.

Thanks for the feedback! We’d love to hear how that experiment goes if you try it.
Feel free to share any logs or observations - improving performance even in challenging network conditions is definitely on our radar, within the structural constraints of the 5-hop mixnet architecture.

@scary

stupid of me but i never realized how deep the discounts were for longer subscription periods, i might give it another try if they continue to offer them but i’m kind of broke rn lol.

We know the product has some rough edges, so we’re offering early bird discounts while we polish things up. The 30-day money-back guarantee gives you time to test thoroughly, and free trials are coming in October if you’d prefer to wait.

@scary

i concur, i really want nym to survive and continue to evolve, my original comment was overly pessimistic.

Appreciated, thanks for wanting to see Nym succeed!

[judgeadam]

For the deep discount price and the fact I can stream content Im gonna check it out for when mullvad won’t let me stream due to VPN detection and I wanna watch something.

Hard to beat the speed of mullvad though I will say that. But then they do have a lot of time as a company ahead of you as well so I will keep an eye out. Always interested to try some thing new though and I do like the fact a lot of the entry/exit points are not known to streaming services. Yet, anyway. But again for the 60 bucks 2 years I was like why not. If I’m only doing mainly streaming on it anyway and saving anything else for mullvad.

Thanks and best of luck.