@nlupo You are also a foreign agent, because you receive money from foreign countries (foreign to russia, so non-russia). You have to prefix all your statements with:

НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛИ) НАПРАВЛЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ «nLupo» ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА «nLupo». 18+

Oh, and also you legally can't curse[1] or look at gay porn[2]

[1] https://roskomsvoboda.org/en/post/gossduma-proposes-10x-fine-for-profanity-online/
[2] https://roskomsvoboda.org/en/post/extremist-search-penalty-russia-755710/

@soatok You will miss out on the amazing experience of having no signal

https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2025-06-26&until=2025-07-26&axis_x=measurement_start_day&time_grain=day

@cliffle @ZeirosLion @soatok You(cliffle)'re clearly joking, but a rainbow on a website (especially if it's straight) can be considered "praising LGBT", which is highly illegal is Russia.

So, Soatok, your website is illegal here.

@soatok Well, most VPN providers say that they don't keep logs, and sometimes other people examine their systems and also say that they don't log, so I can trust them a little bit, unlike my ISP, who definitely logs and shares that data.

And I sure as hell don't want the Trevor Project showing up in Rostelecom's logs under my name, or in the logs of a Chinese service under my name. I assume that's the same with most people (Even people who live in a normal country)

And yes, I already know that vpn claims are mostly unverifiable, which is why this account is using Tor

@soatok

I have never seen security and privacy comparison tables <...> used for any other purpose but deception

I believe I have an example of a good checklist: the Techlore VPN Toolkit[1]

Yes, it includes and prioritizes jurisdiction, but in the case of VPNs it actually matters.

It includes a lot of non-security columns, like "P2P Friendly" or "Anon Payment" and subjective stuff, like "Honest Marketing", which I would argue are all important to know.

And while it includes two crypto columns, it does not categorize the values in any way, just providing raw data. And, actually, no non-binary columns have values categorized into "good" and "bad" (apart from maybe "Honest Marketing")

[1] https://techlore.tech/vpn/