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Whenever I hear this argument
“Most people are not interesting enough to profile, so they don’t need this XYZ privacy tool…”
I always have this ready as a counter argument
"Only a stupid person would not care about pickpockets just because his wallet does not have much cash - a pickpocket will not ask you how much cash you have before picking your wallet, and even if your wallet turns up to be empty, the pickpocket is not going to be a gentleman and return that to you.
Tracking/profiling for Ads on the internet happen en masse; you are just one of a million data points that build a profile - it doesn’t care whether you as an individual are interesting or not".
Also, most “interesting” people were once not interesting at all. It’s naive to think that data gathered on us in the past cannot be used in the future.
Go torrenting the high seas and see how well that statement holds up, Spacebar.
(EDIT: nvm. They literally mention this in the article.)
Depending on your local laws it might not be an issue at all.
Tor Browser is both free, and a hell of a lot more secure.
Tor browser is not free. The cost is externalized. It is run by people who see value in the community.
If you use mullvad, or safing spn, your paying directly to support the network without externalized costs. Both are good options.
If you have the means, and ability, I highly recommend donating to run a Tor node or running one yourself.
Makes sense. I don’t use Tor for much of anything, just have an awareness of it, but I do donate money to lemmy.world and SDF for pretty much exactly this reason.
The big issue right now is that VPN services servers IP are getting massively banned from multiple platforms. There should something new araise to help on this.
