I’m a total noob about VPNs, but I’d like to beat my service provider’s data throttling. I need to do a lot of downloading and uploading of large files, and am running into my deadline, but I don’t have any disposable income to put into a paid VPN. Do Y’all have suggestions?
For people telling me to pay for one; if I had the money I would have just done that and wouldn’t have needed to ask. But as it stands, I can barely make enough money to feed myself, it’s pretty hard to justify the cost of a decent VPN (even if it seems cheap to you). I don’t really care about privacy or companies selling my data, I just want to upload what needs to be uploaded in a timely manner, as it’s already taken three days of shit internet, and it’s still 22% done.
To be fair I’ve just recently come to take privacy seriously, and I don’t know any better source than privacytools.io for general privacy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You will be far better off in this community, and on my privatelife (both Lemmy and Reddit).
r/privacy and r/privacytoolsio communities of such kind will push you into Apple meme or Brave scam or GrapheneOS toxic community with disregard for your needs, and teach you a bunch of nonsense.
You can also pick The Hated One or Techlore for starters. Michael Bazzell’s podcast is nice to learn OSINT and OPSEC tactics in general.