Reddit CEO: “What? We can’t sell user data on our increasingly punitive and terrible site because the bots keep fucking up the models trained on that data? Hold my beer…”

I am worried that by allowing random users to surf using my network to prevent surveillance, someone will use my address to do malicious things, and I will get into legal consequences.

Yeah. That’s not a hidden risk, that’s an up-front risk you accept by using the extension. You may want to not let it keep running while the browser is closed, which would reduce how long the connection lets others use your IP.

All extensions make a fingerprint more identifiable. This is usually only used with Tor if a Tor connection is blocked, so if you’re just using this on Chrome or stock FF, yes, it will be very unique.

You’re having valid thoughts - but what are you trying to do? Why not just use a VPN?

You should check your browser fingerprint first. Anything privacy-focused likely already reports your timezone as UTC. I believe that Mullvad, LibreWolf, and Brave all do that.

And it’s not unnecessary at all. In fact, I’ve had to set my time zone to other countries where my VPN is set in order to use some sites, and set streaming device time zones to the US to not get dinged as using a VPN. This isn’t unreasonable at all.

Yeah, exactly. They don’t make it hard to not tie personal data to them if you want, you just have to actually DO the thing to take advantage of it. These people seemed to think it was magic, which seems to be how a lot of people think Proton or Tuta works.

Really, this headline should be “Organization so poorly organized that they messed up having relatively secure email.”

I’m sorry your free messaging app isn’t perfect. /s

And I always assumed that nicknames was just as much to prevent screenshots from becoming a liability.

STOP CALLING IT PARANOIA! FFS, This stuff is being used to track people that go to protests.

404 needs to shove their paranoia and normalize using truth and real words and not hedging like CNN or something.