I know YouTube is a terrible provider of pirated content and also that it is almost impossible to pirate without a VPN, but I would like to know: if I download a movie from YouTube (directly from it, of course) without a VPN, will I receive "that type of message" from my ISP?

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[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I can speak for Nord's client sending requests to Google for some reason, maybe not great for privacy thus not great for piracy either.

I can speak well of Mullvad, but advise against sending hundreds of bucks in one go as paper mail is not exactly well secured. There's another VPN that happily accepts cash as payment and doesn't need your info but I can't find it atm...

[–] whats_all_this_then@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago

I didn't know about the whole Nord sending data to Google thing wtf. That immediately puts them on my shit list.

Yeah cash in snail mail is probably not the smartest haha. I personally use a card on Mullvad for the convenience alone - piracy isn't illegal here and their no logs policy is good enough for my use case but it being an option tells me they take that stuff seriously at the very least which is why I mentioned it.

Please reply here if you find the other one that lets you send cash. I'm loving Mullvad so far but it's always good to have options.