Privacy

49076 readers

692 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

Id mullavad vpn cash worth it? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

25 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Is it worth it to wait 2 weeks and like also the possible additional costs with shipping and all that? I would not buy voucher either way cuz I don't like amazon.

Also, how did you buy it if you have?

edit1: forgor to add the last paragraph.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Several ways:

Sell a good/service on XMRBazaar.com
RetoSwap.com is a software you download that is a peer to peer decentralized exchange. You can pay others with whatever payment methods are supported PayPal, Zelle, Cash App, Amazon gift cards, cash-in-mail, etc.
Centralized exchange (not recommended) you can give all of your KYC information to a centralized exchange such as Coinbase and buy something like USDC on there and then use an instant swap service such as trocador.app to convert the USDC into Monero.
Mine it with your CPU: This is the slowest way but also the most permissionless

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Is mining monero feasible?

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, its meant to be CPU mineable

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

(Different person than you replied to) Does that have a positive return, vs the electricity you gotta use?

No agenda for the question. I sincerely have no idea about it. I'd venture a guess tho, that if there was a positive return, ppl would do it at scale and drive down the return. And maybe they'd do it in places with very cheap power.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

In fiat, no.

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

ty.