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  • Midnight@slrpnk.netto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    Feral horses are a problem in the American plains and west with one of the issues being the fact their carcasses will attract grizzlies or black bears which can then encroach on humans. Hiking out, digging a massive pit, and then burying a horse really isn’t an option so they blow them up to increase the speed of decomposition.

    They also degrade and destroy native grassland and the whole problem could be easily solved with a cull of the herds, but some dipshit-wanabe-cowboys are obsessed with “saving” “wild” horses so now the federal government has to spend over a $100 million on horse contraception to keep the population vaguely in check.

    TDLR: We blow up a bunch of horses corpses every year because of a politically connected nonprofit.

































  • Where are you getting free VM hosting?

    The comment was in reference to VPN services. Sadly, given theres no right to privacy, you must pay to not be tracked.

    i feel like most of your argument is rendered moot with encrypted dns solutions like DoH.

    You misunderstand. Large ISPs run their own DNS servers which are preconfigured into the devices they sell. They are the intended recipient and you’d just be encrypting it in transit to their servers.


  • Another reason to use a VPN is that ISPs have every motive to sell your browsing data and they do. Unlike many other groups tracking you, your ISP inherently has your meatspace name, address, and payment information making their data easily collatable and very valuable.

    If you use the default DNS on their provided router they can even tell if someone purchased an XBox, Playstation, or any other smart device just from update and telemetry lookups.

    As the article says, by using a VPN youre using someone else’s ISP making that info worthless.

    If your threat model includes preventing ad networks from gathering data, a VPN absolutely is a tool to prevent that. Do you have to pay for a service? Probably not if you’re technical enough; a VM in a data center is probably sufficient.