• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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      In 2019, I’ve been to China for my cousin’s wedding. I didn’t get a VPN, I just connected to a free public network whenever I needed it. Haven’t seen a single landing page. Probably was heavily spied on, but I didn’t get holed up in a solitary cell when going to the airport, so it went well I guess.

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        3 months ago

        Some co-workers told me they got scam attempts trying to get into their bank accounts.

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      That’s what VPN companies want you to think. All services that transfer sensitive data use HTTPS so I don’t care.

      Anyway, you can’t connect to a VPN server in the “sign in to the network” phase.

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    I mean, you run your own firewall (that’s what I got from the title) amongst I assume other privacy controlling measures (tho it’s really just an assumption) and also wanna use a public network of a goddamn shopping center…

    are you really surprised?

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      3 months ago

      No, I don’t run a firewall. It’s their own firewall that blocks their own landing page where I would see an “accept terms” prompt.

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        Ah, alright. That’s pretty shitty.

        Though it’s still not the wisest to use these open wifi networks. Their firewall did a favor tor you IMO. 😄

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      3 months ago

      Visited london a few months ago, and my mobile data worked maybe twice for a few minutes during the entire week. Had to use wifi whenever there was any available, and usually they didn’t work either.

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          I wonder about the data. 2021 was not a long time ago, and €3.55 is just way too high to make sense to me in Slovakia. I’d expect something like €1.50 or €2 instead. And even that just for regular prepaid.

          Anyway, in 2021 I was using Swan Mobile (4ka) for €12/month for 300GB. That would make €0.04/GB.
          They’re the 4th carrier which is what’s bringing down the price a bit. Unfortunately, even now they still only own a small chunk in 1800MHz, so the speed is low as well as is the coverage.
          It’s better now that they have access to 2100MHz and 900MHz from Orange (official FUP 20GB - real FUP is 80GB currently*), but the price also went up to €17/month, so €0.057/GB.

          * The FUP was officially 20GB for as long as I’ve used them, but the real limiting was always different. During the 3G Orange access it was throttled after 40GB. Then after 3G shutdown and migration to partial 4G sharing, there was absolutely no limiting for a few months. Then they started to apply it after 80GB.
          This however is not optimal. The “national roaming” as they call it is no longer shown as roaming. Instead the device registers into Orange network natively, thus this data usage cannot be controlled.
          At least on most devices. I specifically bought a phone that supports manual band selection. This “feature” is never advertised and may disappear with an update (e.g.: Samsung devices some time back), as it is just a leftover testing menu that is generally removed. Especially since in some cases it even let’s you change stuff like IMEI.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemm.eeOP
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      Not quite. Even if copyright didn’t exist, they still would block porn etc. I even encountered a Wi-Fi network where YouTube videos worked except those with content warnings (such as mentions of self-harm). I wonder how that can be done despite HTTPS - maybe the questionable videos have a different domain? I should have investigated the issue more but NewPipe made it seem like the video had been taken down so I just assumed that was the case. (It was at a train station in southern Bavaria, most likely Wangen im Allgäu. I was there only once.)