I wasn’t trying to do that, just making a general statement
I wasn’t trying to do that, just making a general statement
this could be said about many popular open source projects
I don’t understand how if this requires a VPN which I can’t use?
besides lying, which might be illegal in your area, and/or grounds for having the domain seized if anyone complains.
google wallet is not required to be tied to any bank accounts, and US does not even support NFC within banking apps.
google wallet in general will not work.
also bank apps utilizing NFC is not a thing in the US
NFC payments also don’t work.
Anything that uses NFC payments.
subpoenas can still reveal the owner
subpoenas can still reveal the owner
subpoenas can still reveal the owner
Unfortunately I cannot use a VPN because several apps I use (including android auto) do not work with it.
I thought you needed root for app-level firewalls?
Yes I mean google wallet. I’ve never heard of a banking app supporting NFC payments by itself, I was not aware that was even a thing… googling suggests that might be an EU-only thing.
Every time I think about running custom roms or degoogled stuff, I remember that NFC payments will no longer work and then I get sad.
network namespaces can do it, firejail makes it easy but there’s several other methods as well.
if you already know the IP address(es) you will be communicating with, it’s even easier just by adding a static route with a gateway of the VPN interface.
You don’t control any VPN services hosted on someone else’s (e.g. a cloud provider’s) infrastructure
We must have very different definitions of “control”.
They have full access and can technically do anything.
You could say the same for anyone with physical access to a machine. But the people who have to worry about that likely aren’t reading this.
And they see your incoming and outgoing connections.
So does any bandwidth provider you pay money to.
This is stupid, and doesn’t give you any privacy benefit.
Highly debatable and subjective IMO
There are good and trustworthy VPN providers
Depends on your definition of trustworthy… some say it’s impossible to trust any company.
I think there’s mainly two usecases:
the “weird” people who don’t visit any mainstream sites and live under a rock
people who disable JS by default but are always adding exceptions for sites that need it
I have seen people with an axe to grind use frivolous lawsuits to reveal domain identities, you don’t actually have to do anything wrong for that to happen.