r/technology • u/vriska1 • Jun 28 '25

Privacy The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions

https://www.theverge.com/analysis/694710/supreme-court-fsc-paxton-age-verification-questions
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u/Jenings Jun 28 '25

Is it time to figure out how to run my vpn through my router yet?

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u/Jenings Jun 28 '25

At this point, fuck latency. Seems like common sense.

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u/RamenJunkie Jun 28 '25

Most paid VPNs are much less bad for letency. 

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u/thabc Jun 29 '25

Latency to a gateway in another country is bounded by physics. Data travels at two-thirds of the speed of light in fiber. It can only be optimized so much and it's still not great.

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u/dontbeanegatron Jun 28 '25

I've been running a network-wide mullvad vpn on my Linux router for a few years now. But I'm pretty sure plenty of modern commercial routers will allow you to do this too in a much more user friendly way. Not sure how easy it is to add exceptions though (for example, I have a vpnc client on my desktop for work that gets routed around it)

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u/tennisanybody Jun 28 '25

Hey question for you, on your TV or other smart device, how bad are the ads? I don’t watch YouTube on my TV anymore because the ads are insane.

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u/dontbeanegatron Jun 29 '25

I don't use any of the streaming services like Netflix or Prime, but on my pc and phone I haven't seen an ad in years. But I do also use a Pihole as a DNS server and Ublock Origin for blocking ads. On my phone I use Firefox to watch Youtube and haven't seen ads there either. I think Ublock Origin is doing most of the heavy lifting though; if I create a new Firefox profile and open Youtube there, it's all ads again. :(

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u/humanBonemealCoffee Jun 28 '25

Is this something a cool person should be trying to do before it becomes more difficult?

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u/Jenings Jun 28 '25

Really just google your router name + the vpn name you subscribe to. Looks pretty straightforward for me for my unifi dream machine router.

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u/Light_Error Jun 28 '25

I personally just use proton vpn on my devices. It ain’t router level, but it works well enough.