No.
You don't get salty emails from your ISP for downloading torrents, you get them because (due to the nature of how torrenting works) you're also uploading the torrent to other users at the same time.
Usenet users download from the data providers. Because it's not crowdsourcing the hosting like torrenting, it's generally not free (hence this post about deals). The trade-off for having to pay is that you don't have to share that risk with the data providers. It's more akin to watching a pirate streaming site than torrenting: you'll never get an email about consuming it, but you might visit one day and realize the site's been taken down or had the domain changed because the owners got the email instead.
They were bought by Kape Technologies in 2019. This drove away a lot of folks because of prior security concerns with another product of theirs. I don't recall the specifics, but here's a reddit thread from the time with comments that likely shed some light on the worries from then if you're curious.
As a practical response, I've been with them since years prior to that and didn't change because I renew 3 years at a time and had 2 years left when they were bought. Figured I'd give them that time to see how things changed. Best I could tell, they didn't in any way that pisses off my ISP, so I still haven't bothered switching.
Fair enough, but it's a good value for the price. Mullvad's €5/month, and while it's fallen out of favor I know people who still use PIA and get it for close to $2/month by prepaying for a few years at a time. You could probably pay for it by turning off the laptop a few hours a day to save on electricity.
Worth the price, imo.
What's the argument for doing this? It looks like media stack includes a vpn, so the effort level isn't going to be all that different.
Echoing everyone else: definitely use a vpn if you're torrenting. Strongly consider using a seedbox if you're on starlink or anything else with poor upload speeds.
I'd wager lots of people think there's something wrong with having 40+ vacancies going into the next administration.
I am not sure why Google would remove these important details from the search listings
Because they're an ad company first and foremost. It's more important to them that you open the video than it be relevant. If you have to open a few extra videos to find the right one, you're more likely to see an extra ad or two in the process.
They don't have to worry about the results being less useful until it's bad enough people start actually using other search engines again.
They got the phone he left in the backpack he bought to leave on the side of the road full of Monopoly money. Them getting that phone was part of the plan.
Bigot, meaning prejudiced person? As you get angry about someone literally before they've passed judgement based on prior cases? Yeah, you're a bigot.
My only post since creating this account is on the Life is Strange instance, so if your argument hinges on me being queerphobic, you might be disappointed and/or projecting your own hatreds.
You seem incapable of coherent linking thoughts together though, so I'm going to go ahead and never interact with you again.
Because Florida judges are bigots
A bigoted statement in itself.
You just seem to not care for that
I was hoping for a real answer. Examples, rationale, that sort of thing. loljudgesevil isn't terribly informative or convincing.
Maybe you think this man’s stand your ground argument is justified?
I don't know anything about the case beyond what's in the article. I haven't commented on the case at all though, just your comments.
Your initial comment's got a few downvotes and you're so far unable to respond to my initial question of "why's that?"
You seem to be the most confused one here.
This judge hasn't decided anything yet.
Is there a series of FL SYG cases against people who shot queer people? I don't live in FL, so I'm not familiar.
I’m not sure why this has to be spelled out for you.
You didn't exactly start with a coherent point.
Are you really not aware of how intensely queerphobic the Florida justice system is?
I'm not aware of what that has to do with stand-your-ground laws. If anything, I'd expect them to come up when discussing how racist the FL justice system is.
In fact, I’m amazed this guy didn’t decide to go with the ‘gay panic’ defense.
If he had, then the other part of your other comment might been relevant.
because this is Florida, I assume the judge will rule that this is a definite stand-your-ground case.
Why's that?
This comment would've made sense 20 years ago when stand-your-ground laws weren't common, but the majority of states have them now.
deep sense of empathy
....relative to his peers.
May the Streisand effect be at its most effective.
Misinformation is also a report category, for those seeking diversity in options...
According to them? It's clearly a social media platform.
How many of them were point-blank assassinations in public during the day?
Shame about the newest one.