brainw0rms [they/them]

Real

76 years*

Some crimes are unforgivable.

firefox always and forever, anything else is almost nearly certain to be a honeypot.

At the risk of sounding contrarian/lame, you should probably not be doing any of this especially if you don’t own the hardware you’re using (as mentioned by another commenter).

You don’t specify if this is university or middle/high school, but either way you are not entitled to and should not expect any privacy on a network you don’t control. Even if you are able to set up a VPN to mask your internet activity, your school’s network administrators almost certainly can tell that you are using a VPN, which itself sounds like it would be a violation of your school’s network policy and will most likely land you in trouble. Indeed, your repeated attempts to access blocked sites have likely already raised some flags.

Even the workarounds that others here have mentioned (like routing VPN traffic over port 443) are inadequate for a network that is being actively monitored. Believe me, it is very easy to tell when someone is connecting to a VPN this way.

I would quit while you’re ahead until you can afford your own hardware/internet connection, and then maybe worry about any notion of privacy. Use your school’s internet for what it was intended.

Bespoke: Involve random people on the internet in whatever weird exhibitionist fetish this is supposed to be

“Hey sister I’m going out for a bit will be back by 11”

“Ok”

Like no offense, but you should probably figure out how to communicate with your family before you attempt dating lol

It was a hidden, opt-out feature.

it’s literally in the privacy & security section of firefox’s settings with its own heading. how is that “hidden”?

average firefox user: screeching on the internet for weeks about some minor new feature or change

me: unticks a box and moves on with my life

You’re so right homie, Arab Americans just need to suck it up and vote for genocide and 99% fascism, or else it’ll be entirely their fault when we end up with genocide and 100% fascism. They wouldn’t want that on their conscience, would they? So true!

Die.

i ain’t reading all that

i’m happy for you tho

or sorry that happened

Proton, yes. There are some criticisms to make regarding them, but I think most are either blown out of proportion or a non issue for the majority of people.

Oh poor little smol bean kamala! she just can’t do anything at all! It’s not like she’s in the same room as the president and has his ear practically every day. fuck off lol

it’s all blahblahblah political theater until she actually turns off the unlimited arms & money spigot. until then I don’t care what she says. as far as I’m concerned she’s just as complicit in this genocide as Biden

midwest.social lemmitors are incapable of funny things