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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.

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Forget about using IP-blockers to protect yourself during P2P activities, use them to block ads and malware (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was just looking around on different websites for what happened to programs like PeerBlock

Seems like they're not really too helpful to protect yourself against snitches. But they are helpful for blocking the IP-ranges of advertising companies...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Correct, but what other protocols are they using? When was the last time you had an ad served via FTP?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

good point. but there's still malware C&C servers that can only be blocked by blocking the IP range