My Dad bought one and took it with us on family camping trips.

I still remember the weird and eerie warbles, chirps and harmonics; creepier than many camp fire ghost stories, under the right conditions.

Everything old, is new again.

** TEAMS **

That’s not good.

‘s a long read. Here’s the intro blurb:

An investigative data journalist and a former tech lawyer teach you how to spot tricks and hidden disclosures within these interminable documents—and even how to claw back some privacy By Jon Keegan and Jesse Woo

Gonna dive in and see what nuggets of wisdom they offer.

Holeeeshit! All that from an accelerometer?

In your case prevention of DDOS via VPN guides your decisions and legit VPN users are collateral damage.

I understand your position, and as you say, no data is sold, so no real harm.

Perhaps banks are the same way.

But out of the ones I have to deal with, only one makes me drop the VPN for access. /smh

Seeing “security companies” tagging VPN IP blocks as sus, is becoming all too common; just like ad blockers are being banned.

They wanna know who you are, where you’ve been, what you’re doing and how you’re doing it…AT.ALL.TIMES.dammit!

Paid services have consolidated to a great degree. But I’ve been a long time Easynews subscriber.

They have decent retention, good completion, and are johnny-on-the-spot re. DMCA requests.

Their real claim to fame is an easy to use browser based front end, so no third party client hassles and it works on mobile.

That said, MUCH has changed since the 90s, i.e. encrypted posts, the USENET hierarchy is largely broken and good luck finding any current text discussion (looking at you, Adobe, ya skeevy fucks).

Should you want more, this is a good guide. https://www.cogipas.com/how-to-use-usenet/

GL&HF

Prohibited? No. Clearly flagged.? Oh yeah.

Aren’t Redditors getting $ for content now?