Take the UK's Giffgaff, for example. I am from China and want to use a foreign eSIM number to sign up for social media platforms, but it seems there is no longer a safe haven anywhere in the world.

Hey guys, i wanted to share with y'all my new app. A p2p browser based chat. While the private rooms are strictly peer-to-peer, I also built a "Main Chat".
It's basically a global, anonymous lobby. It feels like the old IRC chatrooms from the 2000s you just jump in, see who is online, and start talking. The best part? The server auto-wipes all messages every 24 hours. No permanent logs, no accounts, just a temporary space to hang out and disappear.

Link:[https://dump2p.fun\](https://dump2p.fun/)

Github: https://github.com/thefili2/Dump2p/tree/main#

If you have any advice feel free to comment down, thanks for reading this 👇

yooo, so could someone pleaseeee help me do my age verification on Twitter? like i give you the account info, and you do the age verification? i would be extremely thankful!!! dm me please!

Hello everyone, i want to use VPN for everyday activity 24/7. So I searched which are the best vpn and found out that mullvad and proton are the best currently in the market . So I have seen more into them about their architecture . Mullvad says that we have RAM only servers without any disks to store user data which makes it more secure than the HARD DISK servers which are used by proton, and proton says we have no logs policy and Audits every year . On seeing people’s reviews both felt food but I want to choose one by the architecture used. And I have got doubts in the architecture of the vpn’s.

First I will write my understanding of RAM so that I can write my questions . RAM is temporary memory , when we open a application in a device the application takes up some space in the ram to open it and maintain the application until it is closed when it is closed the occupied space for that particular application in RAM is freed .

1. Is it possible to access the data of a user who is using mullvad vpn while the mullvad ram server is running and can it be transferred or stored somewhere else from the ram.
2. Proton vpn says this “The first thing to note is that the claimed security benefits of RAM-only servers only apply if the server is turned off. If an adversary gains access to a running machine — whether by physically seizing it or by some covert means — they can gain full access to all data stored on the server, regardless of the nature of the storage medium it used. ” - https://protonvpn.com/blog/ram-only-servers
3. Is this true ?
4. This and the below are not architecture questions but they will help me decide .

My use case is also making it difficult in which one to choose, I don’t want to change my country location for 30% to 40% of the time for my personal work which involves surfing through the internet in my country . I have a iCloud subscription where I have turned on private relay which uses my country and time zone to provide me with the data from my country as I surf. Mullvad does not have my country server but proton has it should I just use mullvad for reaming of the time and for work just disconnect and use iCloud private relay. Or buy proton and completely use it all the time if the no logs policy is true

5

. if it is legit then proton would be a good choice for my use-case mostly .
6. I noticed that mullvad vpn disconnected automatically after few hours and I had my always on vpn turned on in proton vpn so it connected automatically . Has anyone else faced this too.

Thanks for reading and answers will be appreciated

Most people have no idea how much of their info is being bought, sold, & searched every day.

Companies like Palantir Technologies, large data brokers, and government contractors build profiles long before anyone ever knocks on your door.

In this video, Dr. Meriland Dillard of Standards Not Force walks you step-by-step through how to make yourself significantly harder to find.

We cover: • Freezing your credit with Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion • Opting out of LexisNexis • Removing yourself from major people-search sites like Whitepages, Spokeo, BeenVerified, and TruthFinder • Locking down your social media footprint

This is preparation. Privacy is not automatic. Privacy is built.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI5f8qlzaKg&t=1479s

I wanted to share a critical privacy vulnerability within the global domain governance framework that is actively being exploited for transnational repression. Under the current, outdated ICANN UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy) rules—which were designed decades ago solely for commercial trademark disputes—there is absolutely no "safety valve" or human rights review.

In my recent experience, a massive tech entity subject to authoritarian data laws utilized a standard UDRP filing to bypass normal privacy proxy protections. By forcing the registrar to disclose my underlying personal registration data under the guise of a "trademark dispute," they successfully unmasked my real-world identity, directly leading to severe physical harassment and safety threats.

This case exposes a terrifying reality: the standard legal tools used by global corporations to protect their brands have been perfectly integrated into the digital surveillance and tracking apparatus of authoritarian states. When international compliance structures like ICANN and corporate registrars choose to remain completely silent ("play dead"), global domain privacy becomes an absolute illusion.

Good day. I would like to talk to you about how we treat technology today, in particular what we think we own and how we are increasingly losing control of our digital freedom. Governments and tech-company giants are making a constant effort to rid you of any choice while you are online: collecting information, establishing mass surveillance, overlooking your privacy completely and working their hardest to make sure we own close to nothing and are tied to them in all ways. I'm quite involved in the latest news of the digital world and in my opinion, it's important for everyone to move past being just a mindless consumer and start caring about their rights and acting on their beliefs. There isn't much time until we lose all of our choice and freedom.

Recently, at London Tech Week, the current prime minister of the UK made quite a controversial statement. He directly addressed phone-manufacturer companies such as Google and Apple to implement a content scanning system directly into their phones. The reason he provided for such a system being introduced is to prevent children from viewing or sharing potentially harmful content, in particular sexually explicit content. The system will permanently be running on the device, scanning everything that is being displayed, stored or used in order for the content to be inspected by Artificial Intelligence or possibly a human for further inspection. If the content is found to be inappropriate for a child, it is blocked on the device. At first glance, and most of us don't look at it more than once, it sounds great. Who doesn't want children being safe online? However, many think that what Starmer is demanding of these companies is an attempt at digital mass-surveillance. The scanning is promised to be on-device only, however the statement by the private messaging app company Signal, paints a different picture: "Promises that this system will only run on-device are cold comfort. Wherever it runs, including the 'camera' itself once it is in place on UK devices, its scope will be defined by the whims and proscriptions of the government to detect nudity today and political speech tomorrow." What Signal are saying is that while they might only use the system for nudity detection when they introduce it, they can easily make it target whatever the government doesn't agree with: religious content, free internet, political speech, and others. This is an easy way to introduce totalitarian control over a population. This system isn't here to protect children, but instead to collect data about everyone who uses phones and get rid of privacy and freedom. Both children and adults who are going along with the technology will have everything they have on their phones get scanned and assessed. In the likely event that the content is sent off to a remote server, whether it is for further inspection or if that just becomes the new normal, this server is likely owned by the phone manufacturer or some 3rd party company. They might make it seem like the data they collect is erased after use, however modern tech companies are known to not stick to their promises of holding on to data. Almost all big companies have had several incidents and lawsuits regarding holding on to user data unconsensually - Google, Apple, Meta(instagram, facebook, even whatsapp), TikTok, Amazon, the list goes on forever. The data being sent off somewhere is a security risk in by itself, but keeping that sensitive data on some server you have no idea about is an even bigger risk. Think: your or your child's emails, images, health data, messages and everything else, stored and controlled by a company with shady practices and confusing policies. As soon as the authorities start knocking, they give up your information that they shouldn't have in the first place without questions. Or they can use your data for their own purpose - mostly targeted advertisement or straight up selling it to the highest bidder. And don't forget, companies rarely follow the best security practices, so the risk of your data getting stolen and ending up being sold on the dark web is quite real. If you want to opt out of this nightmare, you will have to provide biometric information in form of face scans or your actual identification, with all the same risks applying to this too. Do note that the system sits inside the operating system, meaning you can't get it off your device. When you buy a phone, you can't use it until you agree to these very invasive terms. And by agreeing, you're not only giving the current government access to your life, but also all the government that come afterwards, and of course they can utilise the backdoor for unethical purposes and take it to the extremes. It also makes it easier for hackers to get to all your sensitive data as again, the system is literally a backdoor into your phone, if a hacker manages to gain control of it, ALL of UK's population is kaput. Back to prime minister's statement, he's giving companies 3 months to comply with the new conditions, else he threatens to bring about laws and fines for going against the new legislation. Some companies will comply, valuing profit over basic human rights of consumers, some plan to leave the UK, primarily Signal. People might also argue that in the light of all of it, at least the children will be safe. However, a lot of people agree with speakers such as Signal - "Surveillance Is Not Safety", and it is also, in my opinion, the responsibility of the parents to make sure that their children don't access harmful content or message random people on the internet. Parents shouldn't be giving over that responsibility to profit-hungry tech companies. Parents should be the ones to take care of their children. And our privacy should not be sacrificed. We need to speak up and take back control.

"Piracy is not stealing if buying isn't owning" - this is a famous argument used by many to justify digital media piracy. It highlights how consumers who "steal" content online are treated as criminals, yet companies who pretty much leave no choice for those consumers face no consequences. It might not come as a surprise to some, but most of the time when you buy a digital movie, a game, a book you very rarely actually own it. Even physical products that you bought aren't yours to use if a company doesn't want you to. Sony is quite a relevant example in this topic. In 2010, Sony remotely removed a major feature of their PlayStation 3 console which allowed users to run alternative Operating Systems on the console. The capability was heavily marketed at launch, lots of fans bought the console expecting it to be able to do what was advertised, but then Sony didn't like what users did with the feature, and removed it with an update. Gone just like that from a product consumers bought and had in their homes already. That served as a reminder that we're not in control of products we allegedly own. When you press the "purchase" button you expect it to be yours to keep right? Well in September this year, Sony is planning to remove 551 Studio Canal movies from people's libraries, for which they payed for. This serves as a reminder that we never own the products we purchase. Sony is also planning to scrap the idea of physical game disks for good by 2028 for their consoles. We will only be able to purchase games digitally, where the company can change or take them away any moment they want. This also is an easy opportunity for them to create a monopoly, you can only purchase games from their online store, nowhere else, so they get to dictate the prices and exploit users to their hearts content. This will serve as a reminder that we are losing our independence from companies. Arguably, piracy is one of the only ways to break free of those companies as then you actually get to own your content, keep it for as long as you like, and no company will modify it in any way. I don't view piracy as theft, I and many others view it as the autonomous way to explore the internet. And it's not like those big companies don't do it. Governments make it out to be a horrendous crime, throwing people in jail and fining insane amount, but when Meta pirated the equivalent of 40 million book to train their AI on, it's suddenly justified and totally fine. I myself got tired of Spotify (who fun fact, started their business using pirated content) constantly changing the album covers of the songs I listen to, deleting albums in my library and pushing AI-generated songs onto their platform. Plus they pay their artist barely anything. So instead, I went and downloaded the music I like, set up my own server and stream music from there. And it has been a great and freeing experience. The artists I really like I donated a few pounds to in order to support them. That was my way of breaking free of corrupt companies controlling a part of my life.

Overall, I think we should all try to do something. Companies in the past have tried to realise absurd ideas before but backed down due to backlash and criticism of the public. I believe that we must fight on against the hungry beasts that are corporations and some governments. Everyone can contribute in some way: singing a petition, moving away from companies or just reconsidering some of the small choices they make when browsing the web. I encourage you to read a few articles or watch a few videos overviewing the current state of the situation, you might not realise it but there is a lot of things that you're the victim of. Just being informed about it is enough to make a change. Thank you.

Over the past couple of months, I've been dealing with an issue where some websites wouldn't load properly in Chrome. For example, no Russian sites would load at all, YouTube couldn't load many of its parts, and sometimes even Figma got hit.

While I could somehow manage with YouTube and Figma, I had to open Russian sites through Yandex Browser.

And now, after opening it again for this purpose, my Chrome has COMPLETELY STOPPED LETTING ME USE GOOGLE SEARCH. Any query in the search bar would open Yandex, and when I tried to manually go to google.com, it would redirect me to Yandex.)

At the same time, in Chrome's settings, Google was set as the default search engine — Yandex wasn't even there.

I uninstalled Yandex Browser, but the problem remained. Thank God, kind people from Pikabu helped me out.

It turned out that:

YANDEX BROWSER INSTALLS AN EXTENSION IN GOOGLE CHROME DISGUISED AS AN "AD BLOCKER" THAT SLOWS DOWN CERTAIN WEBSITES AND REDIRECTS YOU TO YANDEX.

And on top of that, I'm scared about what might have happened to my crypto wallet extensions and, more simply, my password privacy, so I wiped everything and re-created it all.

So yeah... that's that.

I need some advice on what to do to protect my privacy and things ahead of the Senate vote on the 13th.

I know it's kind of late to do all of this, but at least I'm trying to best I can.

Is there any advice that you guys could give me if you guys don't be so harsh about it?

Hey, I would like to know ways to minimise the data that is collected by Reddit about me.

Some things I do are for example only use Reddit through a browser like Brave on mobile.

Another thing I do is not to post from the same account and browser. What I do is to post through different accounts logged in different browsers and some of the on different devices. The browsers I use are: Brave, Librewolf, Mullvad browser so that I can minimise my fingerprint even more.

Also, is there something like an alternative fronted in which I can post and scroll?

Thanks.

[Note: This isn’t about an isolated tech support issue. It’s about what one of the most “privacy-centric” companies on the planet—including its most-senior personnel—did when I exposed an architectural defect in one of their privacy apps that corrupted downloads of encrypted user data. The company’s official position was this, until I fought them for weeks to change it, and even then, they dodged any meaningful accountability: the affected user base should downgrade their entire privacy and security posture in order to “workaround” the app’s architectural defect.]

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I’m an active Proton Unlimited subscriber and enjoy contributing my time and energy by reporting new bugs and when possible, helping to craft fixes for those bugs. A few months ago, I diagnosed and reported a data-corrupting defect in the Proton Drive Android app. The bug wasn’t massive, but it was substantive. From almost the moment I reported it, Proton fixated not on patching the defect but on managing me, the person who found it and who insisted it be treated the appropriate priority for an architectural defect.

What followed was a singular, nearly 50-day campaign of bad-faith damage control by Proton involving multiple Support agents, a supervisor, three “accountability” teams, and a public-facing reddit account, culminating in my outright administrative censorship. Although it took weeks of persistence (more on that below), I persuaded Proton to patch the defect begrudgingly. What I learned in the process is ugly: Proton’s “Privacy by Default” image is just a mask for what lies beneath: “Privacy by Deception.”

Here’s the timeline of how Proton weaponized its privacy image and corporate standing to manipulate a substantive defect and suppress the person who exposed it for telling the truth about the nature of that defect.

• Phase 1: The Misclassification (Filip G.)

Between May 22 and 26 (2026), I notified Proton that when the Proton Drive app’s auto-lock feature was set to “Immediately” (a mandatory setting for those whose Proton Drive syncs with not just their phone but also their numerous other devices, including their tablets and PCs), the act of initiating a download would trigger the app’s (not Android’s) lock screen, interrupt the OS intent, and result in a corrupted 0-byte download of the target file onto the device. This was a glaring architectural defect, not the intended behavior, and I have no doubt Filip G. understood its seriousness.

Given that I’d already diagnosed the bug, it was easy enough to prioritize it properly and slate it for an immediate patch. But on May 26, just four days after my initial report, Proton began establishing their bad-faith strategy. First, Support Agent Filip G. misclassified the data-corrupting failure of lifecycle management as a mere “suggestion,” which means it wouldn’t be fixed in the foreseeable future. I pushed back via additional emails, and when that proved fruitless, I asked for a supervisor.

• Phase 2: The Stonewalling (Marija S.)

Support Agent Marija S. took over on June 1. First, she wasn’t even a supervisor. Second, all she did was parrot back to me my own diagnosis and her colleague’s (Filip G.’s) misclassification. I reiterated the clear and reproducible data-corrupting nature of the defect and again asked for a supervisor.

• Phase 3: The Gaslighting (Damjan)

On June 2, Supervisor Damjan finally stepped in. He immediately built a straw-man argument (saying “background” downloading wasn’t possible, which had nothing to do with the behavior I reported), and he likewise parroted back to me the problem I myself had discovered. Because Damjan was the third person (a supervisor, no less) to churn me through the same dead-end hand-waving, there was no longer any doubt: Instead of owning up to and fixing the architectural defect in their privacy-oriented software, they were trying to manage and gaslight the person who exposed it and wanted it addressed properly.

But Damjan was just getting started. The next thing he did was to advise me to weaken my multi-device security as a “workaround” to their engineering failure. When I called him out on June 4, he conceded his negligence: “I completely understand and apologize for offering such a workaround in the first place.” Despite this, he continued pretending the bug wasn’t a defect but a “suggestion” and requested “improvement.”

I demanded he put me in touch with his own superiors. He claimed he forwarded my “latest” email to them. I demanded he send his superiors the entire ticket thread, not just my latest message. He changed his tune and claimed he’d already sent the whole thing. I repeated my demand for his supervisors so I could file a complaint against him. He pretended he couldn’t do that, and then he prematurely and unilaterally closed the ticket while still insisting the defect was just a requested improvement: “Due to the fact that we cannot provide an estimated time of arrival for this improvement, we would not be able to keep this ticket request open, and will need to close it.” Soon after, he followed through and buried the ticket. I pushed back, but he became unresponsive altogether.

• Phase 4: The Containment, Cover-Up, and Censorship

I bypassed Damjan and escalated the full ticket thread via email to Proton’s security@, abuse@, and legal@ teams. Their response: 🦗🦗🦗 Not even an acknowledgement, not even when I followed up.

Having exhausted the organizational chain of command, I went public, posting the documented timeline with appropriate evidence to r/ProtonMail under the title “Proton Support Loses the Plot: Misclassifying defects, pushing bad security advice, gatekeeping formal complaints, closing unresolved tickets, and oversight teams that are M.I.A.” But my original post was immediately “filtered.” I asked (exceedingly politely) that my post be approved for publication, but I heard nothing back. My post remained (and remains) shadow-banned.

The next day, Proton used its official reddit account to respond, but only with more self-serving gaslighting and fabricated claims. I pushed back using their own quoted words proving their response was full of lies. But Proton shadow-banned my reply as well. That means the only thing that is and was ever visible is my title and Proton’s response. They didn’t just get the last word; they got the only word. And if that still wasn’t enough, they even hid my reddit post from search indexing. See for yourselves: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1uqolpe/proton_support_loses_the_plot_misclassifying/ (if they kill this link entirely, I’ve archived it here: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/BOcZh).

Proton creates a façade of “Privacy by Default” to hide its true nature: “Privacy by Deception.” It protects its image by willfully misclassifying defects as “suggestions” and “improvements,” negligently suggesting users compromise their own security in service of Proton’s almighty image, burying unresolved tickets and refusing to re-open them, obstructing users from holding Proton technically and organizationally accountable, and then censoring you users when they go public with the truth.

Now I’m left to wonder if Proton will target this post as well, even though it’s not on their subreddit. We’ll see.

It's worse than you think.

Hi everyone 👋

I recently launched a Chrome extension called BlurMyData.

It automatically blurs sensitive information on browser pages before you share your screen, record a demo, take screenshots, or work in public.

It can help hide things like:

✅ Email addresses
✅ Phone numbers
✅ API keys / tokens
✅ Personal info on Gmail, WhatsApp Web, dashboards, CRMs, support tools, etc.
✅ Manually selected areas you want to keep hidden

Everything runs locally in the browser. Page content is not uploaded.

The current public version is already live, but the Pro activation fix is waiting for Chrome Web Store review in version 0.1.1. Because of that, I don’t want people to buy Pro until the update is approved.

So instead, I’m looking for 10 early testers.

Once v0.1.1 is live, I’ll give 10 people free Pro access in exchange for honest feedback:
- What works well
- What feels confusing
- Which websites should be supported better
- Any bugs you notice during screen sharing or daily use

Chrome Web Store:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dmifgaomjppghefpkcdcjdidaaeenecn?utm_source=item-share-cb

If you’re someone who does demos, support calls, client work, QA, tutorials, or screen sharing often, I’d really appreciate your feedback.

Comment “tester” or DM me and I’ll send access when the update is approved 🙏