My guess is that whatever VPN server your connected to had someone else who was spamming or doing something else they weren’t supposed to. This caused the email addresses associated with that IP to be flagged.

One of the drawbacks to a VPN is you share your IP with strangers who sometimes do stuff you get penalized for.

The protocol is cool, the implementation becoming proprietary and enshittified is a bummer.

Stunner legal entity follows the law…

Fellas your VPN is not going to break the law for you.

We are all dumber for reading your comment.

Poisoned data is extremely easy to filter and will only get easier as AI improves. Stop making these posts this is basically FUD. It is much better to get rid of the data you can and form proper data hygiene practices.

Not as bad a taste as the French government is giving me.

If its do I trust GOS or a confirmed pro chat control governments side of the story, its an easy choice.

Don’t bring data you are not ok with a foreign government forcing you to handover. That’s the simplest solution.

Back all your important data up, then wipe your phone before you go. Same with the laptop. You can’t be coerced into giving something you don’t have.

Threat modeling is important. If your just an average Joe being a tourist it is highly unlikely the Chinese government is going to take your devices to search.

Source: travelled to China for an extended period of time.

Based on basic security principles. There is not a real security expert out there that would ever tell you to not update. Leaving a backdoor in your network as a “honeypot” is an absolutely awful idea.

You are also conflating security updates with feature updates. Please take a look at the different terminology.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/installing-updates-features-roles/standard-terminology-software-updates

Anyway if you really hate all the bloat of Windows there is a wide variety of other operating systems to choose from that also offer security updates.

It is pretty much always more dangerous to not update. The internet is an extremely hostile environment (from a security perspective). You really should avoid having devices that are not updated or EOL connected to it.

I do…

Owner - these are the apps I daily drive.

Work - all work stuff lives here.

Google - apps that require the playstore.

I thought about using my owner profile as a hub for app stores and then a 2nd profile as my main profile but I found the 2nd profiles a bit unreliable in terms of receiving calls and texts.

https://soatok.blog/2025/07/07/checklists-are-the-thief-of-joy/

There is a wide variety of quality with these recommendations / suggestions.

For example its still lists calyxos which at the moment is dead and a site like privacytools which is basically an SEO farm.

Generally people should avoid lists that do not provide any sort of criteria / transparency for whats on the list, regardless of the intention.

That doesn’t sound better then the plans in the US. I currently get unlimited data for $15/month.

Every year people have to re-find out /e/ calyx and lineage were never focused on privacy and or security.

Thanks for the clarification!

Great move. They should of done it weeks ago.

Not trying to be rude but I am unclear of the purpose of this. Especially if they are not meant to be eventual replacements. If I already use Signal and OnionShare what am I doing with this info?

Yes. As long as GrapheneOS still exists there is at least some hope. The sad thing is even before this outside of GrapheneOS there really isn’t any other “ROM” actually focused on privacy.

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One is paywalled and one just gives me a blocked page.

Give it a try and update the post. If I was a betting man I’d bet it won’t work.