Buying insurance online, paying off credit cards, interacting with necessary government websites... I've had all of these things fail either silently or catastrophically because I'm using Brave browser and/or a VPN.
Sometimes the transaction will just fail and say "something went wrong, sorry." Or it'll do something even worse like double-charge, or the captcha will fail, or it'll just hang...
I'm in the "encrypt all the things" camp as much as anyone else here, but let's not kid ourselves that it's getting harder and harder to use network-level anonymizing tech.
Globe99
npub147…paq44
2026-10-16 19:56:01 UTC
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npub147fp2j606qpfysp38phhzvempt7ewsdqwm6uww9uycp6tdvavu0s5paq44Published at
2026-10-16 19:56:01 UTCEvent JSON
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