Full circle to sticky notes on monitor.

The idea is they process the payments, and see your connection, and which exit node you use, but don’t see your traffic.
Mullvad doesn’t know who you are, nor where you’re connecting from, just your traffic.

You -> Obscura -> Mullvad -> Website
And each only sees past their arrow.

I am not.
That’s just what obscura does, and they use Mullvad as exit nodes.

Since they don’t have a Linux client, I just added it to Mullvad client. Well, that one config. Plus it means I can just easily use Mullvad directly.

No, that was a bit different.
login: nbusr
password: nbusr123

People being noisy on public transport.

Loud talking, people playing audio on speakers, parents who don’t give a fuck about their ear-piercing screaming machines, etc…

When I am on a train/tram/bus and, say, get a call, I’ll decline it and send the person a text stating that I can’t call right now as I am in a vehicle.

Usually I can avoid noise by using first class. People there tend to talk far less, and they don’t bring kids there. That’s about all 1st class has to offer around here. Avoiding people.
Oh, sometimes the 1st class can even be fairly empty. Like, 1 or 2 people in the carriage type empty. Especially nice with compartment carriages. That way I can be all alone. Which also means I can turn off lights and crank up AC in the compartment. Or open the window, which I’ll regret at the first screeching of brakes. Damn loud.

Obvious, the address of where you pee.

Employees across the company from engineering to HR to finance to marketing run thousands of AI agent sessions each day to get their work done

Meanwhile the employees:

The Cloudflare bit, at least their consumer product in question only works as a public VPN (such as Mullvad, IVPN, etc…), meaning it’s more of an encrypted proxy. So it doesn’t counter anything.
Why it blocks incoming connections on other interfaces ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
It only makes sense for it to capture all outgoing connections not destined to split-tunneled IP ranges, as to prevent leaks.

I also use that, and it’s just all over the place.
I’ve had issues with my carrier, so I just used foreign SIM in roaming for a while. €11 for 40GB is not that bad.

And then I found I can’t purchase a train ticket. For some reason, ZSSK (Slovakian passenger railway company) blocked IPs of Lifecell (Ukrainian MNO), but was fine with IP from RackNerd (Virginia).

Oh, and the university I am at blocks IPs from “3rd world countries”, the result of which was that Asburn, Virginia is fine, but somehow New York is a 3rd world country.
Their instructions say to use any EU-based VPN.

OneDrive uploads would only work for me over Mullvad without crashing.

I also had Reddit block Czech T-Mobile IPs.

Which just seems stupid. Smartphone is a computer. When you want to run something as administrator on Windows, it’s just a Yes/No prompt away, and Windows isn’t some small thing either.

Sounds like Australia to me.

Aside from the 3 top right icons (probably) not showing correctly it seems to run. But I never used it, so I don’t know what to test in there.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2983

The only reliably persistent thing which keeps running in background is Termux.
I don’t know how, but it just doesn’t die in background. I also use it for downloads with wget. I can lock the phone, and it will keep working until it’s done. Any browser just has a high chance of dying.

Yeah, it’s… interesting. Especially with donations.
Apple takes a 30% cut, then Google does so as well from the remainder.

Feeling generous? Congrats, more than a half goes to corporations.

Also to note are regional pricing differences. Let’s for example compare US and Ukraine pricing:

Though I don’t know how much that would seem over there.
But anyway, I pay $1.99 for DNS (NextDNS), so $2.28 for streaming high quality video without ads? Sure, would seem fine.

I wonder how much cost difference there is on the Google side between the regions.

Almost all of the ads I see on the home page are of type “Hot ${GROUP} in your area.”