It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:

  1. It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
  2. It has ads right out of the box.
  3. It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
  4. They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
  • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    1 day ago

    I don’t know how it is in your region, but where I live (the US), streaming pirated content is perfectly legal. As long as you aren’t distributing it, you’re not actually violating any laws. The only thing a free VPN is good for is masking your location so that you can get around porn bans and region locks

      • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        24 hours ago

        What a weird comment to downvote. Literally just factual information. Thankfully I saw this before the deletion, so I can still call you out for having the reading comprehension of… well, an average Lemmy user tbh

        So obviously I didn’t encourage people to leech. I was literally only talking about the legal aspect of streaming pirated content. I don’t actually know if avoiding seeding keeps you legally safe when torrenting, so I avoided commenting on that

        • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          31·
          23 hours ago

          Thankfully I saw this before the deletion, so I can still call you out for having the reading comprehension of… well, an average Lemmy user tbh

          Ooh, yeah, lookit you, you got me. Why do you think I deleted it?

          • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            12·
            23 hours ago

            Probably because you realized that you were reading stuff that I didn’t write. I probably wouldn’t have responded, but drive-by downvotes remind me of reddit, and I can’t stand redditors