Seems contrary to the whole lemmyverse/fediverse model, doesn’t it?

Okay, I get it. Incidentally, strict initial approvals on smaller instances don’t seem annoying at all now, after reading these comments.

Thanks everyone!

    • Ledivin@lemmy.world
      191·
      3 days ago

      lol, why use a VPN at all if you’re going to allow yourself to be fingerprinted like this?

      • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
        19·
        3 days ago

        Because you have to choose who to trust. You can’t “trust no one”. You’re currently trusting your VPN provider. Are you willing to trust lemmy.world? No? Fine, then don’t. Set up your own instance, or use another one you are willing to trust, or find one that allows your VPN that you trust. No one promises these would be easy decisions but you’re going to have to make these choices. A web without any trust is a useless cesspool. Believe me, it’s been tried.

      • deadcream@sopuli.xyz
        15·
        3 days ago

        VPN does very little to stop fingerprinting done by websites. Your IP address is only a tiny bit of information in a vast ocean of data that websites can collect from you. “VPN = privacy” is a marketing scam. The only ones it protects your from is your ISP. VPN’s purpose is to hide you web traffic from your ISP, bypass website bans kindly mandated by the government to “protect” you and enforced by ISP, or to hide torrent traffic (again detected by your ISP), etc.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        VPNs don’t stop fingerprinting. IP addresses are nebulous and change all the time. All a VPN does is hide your traffic from your ISP. So they’re handy for things like torrenting, where you might otherwise catch a scary letter from said ISP.