All internet connections into and out of your Linux device will now be blocked unless a VPN connection to a Proton VPN server is active.

If I understand correctly, before version 4.2.0 (that includes the Advanced setting), the kill switch wasn't active until you opened the ProtonVPN program. So if you restarted you PC, it was connecting to the internet without going through the VPN tunnel, so your traffic was somewhat exposed.

Now, with the new permanent kill switch, there's no internet access without running ProtonVPN.

If an app on one device connects to an app on another via Veilid, it shouldn't be possible for either client to know the other's IP address or location from that connectivity, which is good for privacy, for instance. The app makers can't get that info, either.

Is that considered a new thing? I don't think I've ever encountered a P2P service/protocol that also masks IP addresses.

Use FreeTube?

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/evaluating-the-impact-of-tunnelvision

The instance has too many people registered. It has ~27% of all Mastodon's monthly active users.

A huge part of the network was down. People should be encouraged to migrate to smaller instances, so we can have better decentralization.

You mean Pixel 5.

Relatively high number of RCE vulnerabilities.

The update seems to be bugged. I tried to upgrade version 0.0.57 to 0.0.58, and it seems like nothing have changed. I'm still on 0.0.57 after a "successful" install.

~43% of all Lemmy's monthly active users are on lemmy.world .

Yeah, that's even worse.

IMHO that's a highly requested feature.

Additionally, if you share your account with other people and haven’t enabled two-factor authentication, you may not want to join the Sentinel program, as it will increase your chance of being challenged during logins.

I wonder, so why not just force Sentinel program users to enable 2FA?

I miss the random server option.

Good to know. Thank you for your answers!

What if the site was even able to fingerprint my Tor browser?

I didn't change anything in the browser settings menu. Only thing I did after loading the site for the first time was to click "block canvas fingerprinting".

I'm on Windows 11 BTW.

When you say there's no KYC, does it mean that you don't require it or that both you and the card provider don't require KYC?

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I did that, several times. I tried it natively on Tor Browser for Windows 11. I also tried it in a virtual machine on Tor browser for TailsOS.

On Tails, only resetting the VM did manage to prevent fingerprint(dot)com from tracking the browser, just closing and opening the browser up did not.

Well, you use Linux, maybe Win11 is screwing me in that case.

No, at least not on Android.