Privacy

32120 readers

396 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Does it matter which country you exit from in a VPN? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Would internet services be subject to, let's say Swiss privacy laws, if you were connected to a Swiss server from your VPN? And if they do, would it make that much of a difference that it's worth the occasional hassle of having to change the language and region?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another point to browser experience would be local laws / blocked content.

Connecting to a country that has blocked some content will make it so that you can't see that content. So if you want to read an article and an authoritarian government doesn't want that, you're better off connecting to some other place.

A question from me:

Is there a map to show the connections between countries?

I'm curious what the latency is like from my city to other parts of the world, and it would be cool to try and explain the data with where the undersea cables are. It matters for VPNs, but also things like games and video calls.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 7 points 1 year ago

https://ping.mudfish.net/

You basically want to run a ping test, against a variety of endpoints globally. And then look at the graph to see if there's any outliers or interesting ones. And you will find some. Not all routing is the most efficient.