Be incredibly skeptical of anyone offering privacy advice or promoting specific applications and services, especially those promoting software that relies on servers based in hostile jurisdictions (this goes double for VPNs and communication apps).

[sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social]

Be incredibly skeptical of anyone offering privacy advice or promoting specific applications and services, especially those promoting software that relies on servers based in hostile jurisdictions (this goes double for VPNs and communication apps).

There is so much terrible advice floating around right now.

[sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social]

There are occasional ways to use VPN tech in a way that improves privacy, but they are primarily a circumvention tool - a way to get around local censorship - unless you can be sure that both the incentives of the provider and the jurisdictions involved are more favourable to your own privacy than otherwise, then be skeptical.