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  • a14o@feddit.orgtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlVPN as the day of today?
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    9 days ago

    Privacy is a trade-off against convenience, and there is no perfect privacy.

    VPNs are a mediocre privacy tool, because they presuppose trust in the VPN provider. Tor is flawed because it is open to correlation attacks.

    There are low-hanging fruit that everybody should be using like sensible cookie policies, HTTPS-only mode, and DNS over HTTPS.

    If you are looking for a solution on the far end of privacy/inconvenience you could look into I2P and use that situationally.





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    9 days ago

    If you have backups, reinstall.

    If you don’t, boot a “live CD” USB stick and make a backup, then reinstall.

    Then think about how this happened and how to avoid it in the future:

    I tried updating Kubuntu to the newest version, and it got screwed up the first time,