Yeah, I get it (barring the fact that literal Facebook is not even accessible from my IP lol). But whether this is useful, depends on who the attacker is. If we’re talking about, say, a data broker - yeah. But would Jake from accounting have such “IP-account” logs?

Good luck, my IP consistently points to an entirely another city.

I don’t think they would at least because the share of people who can use it is not that large. Where I am, only one carrier out of the big four has it, and only Samsung phones support it (Google as well, but they’re not officially sold so not quite as popular).

A blurred house in a row of unblurred ones would attract more attention.

Yes, I understand the limitations of GPG. I myself mostly use OMEMO which does have PFS. However, there isn’t really an email encryption scheme that is as widely adopted (and even this is not saying much).

Yeah, this is more of a joke considering most emails are not encrypted. As for illegality - I guess this is just one of the laws a lot of people just have to casually break. I didn’t quite understand how exactly the new rules would be enforced, but seems like avoiding passive detection at least would be trivial.

Yeah, sure! Make yourself comfortable:

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I tried Vanadium when the install was fresh. The adblocking is just not that good… For example, on one of the sites it blocked the ads, but left out the giant HTML elements they used to be in.

From what I’ve heard, it depends on Google services, including for payment.

You can change this setting, not a big deal.

I would not rely on provider-dependent encryption anyway. If you want actual encryption - use PGP.

For me, the main advantage of the model is “you cannot conveniently observe everyone’s activity from one place”.

A TON of people in Russia still use the Three-Letter Word tho, because blocking them is a whack-a-mole. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is above 50% already, given how omnipresent the usage of blocked services are.

There is already precedent for that. Wireguard/OpenVPN traffic going out of the country is blocked, the same traffic within thwecountry is allowed. However, then we have issue with protocols mimicking normal HTTPS… So they may block the ranges of popular hosters instead. But I doubt it would be done to a full extent even in an extreme situation because way too much breaks… And the Internet is still much more than Hetzner or OVH.

P.S. From what I have seen, people have even been doing setups of two servers - one inside the country running WG/OVPN that their and their family or friends’ devices connect to, and one abroad - connected to the first one using a stealthy protocol that you could change at any time if the censorship situation changes, without the end devices having to bother or noticing anything.