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Toronto, Ontario 가입일 Ekim 2015
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Iranians are getting their internet back after 3 months.
Insane that a government can just shut it off for everyone like that.
If you are in Iran, please tell us if Windscribe is working for you.
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@AndrielWindsor The company is Swiss, we have lots of offices across Europe, including one in London which is where I personally am.
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Countries where VPNs are banned:
North Korea 🇰🇵 — 2000
Oman 🇴🇲 — 2010
Iraq 🇮🇶 — 2014
Belarus 🇧🇾 — 2015
China 🇨🇳 — 2017
Russia 🇷🇺 — 2017
Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 — 2019
Iran 🇮🇷 — 2024
Pakistan 🇵🇰 — 2024
Myanmar 🇲🇲 — 2025
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Hmm, why did our sign up rates triple? Probably nothing.
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@mgeist Since 1996 he says, didn't they have phone books back then?
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Canadian Government: Tech companies are misleading the public on security backdoors and breaking encryption in Bill C-22
RCMP: We welcome Bill C-22 because we need security backdoors and the legal tools to break encryption
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@lesmath50 The technologies exist, but at least to some degree, you have the option to not use them and choose alternative services which let you remain relatively private online. Once they government says those services have to log you as well, then you're screwed.
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Around the globe, countries are enacting laws to remove privacy on the internet. Your ability to go online without the government looking over your shoulder is being eroded.
Right now, Canada is trying to push Bill C-22 through as fast as possible. In its current form, the language is broad enough to let them force basically any digital business serving Canadians, including us, into logging up to a year of metadata.
We cannot let the government treat all Canadians as suspects in the name of crime prevention.
For our fellow Canadians, OpenMedia has been busy fighting against C-22 and put together a letter to send to your Member of Parliament.
Contact your MPs before it's too late. The government needs to see that there is resistance from the citizens. Go here: openmedia.org/StopC22 and send your message.
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@uthethe I mean at their scale, that's a very costly operation for not much return. Especially if they get caught doing it. I don't doubt they have the ability to, they have very smart engineers there, I just doubt they're deploying it for everything and everyone all the time.
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@windscribecom Doesn't Google just MiTM everything internally that goes through them?
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Google is one of the biggest data vacuums in the world, and even THEY are out here fighting against Bill C-22 saying that this would be the first time, anywhere in the world, they would be legally mandated to compromise on their users' end-to-end encryption.
Roman Baber@Roman_Baber
Google was never forced, by any government in the world, to build a back door or any mechanism to breach end-to-end encryption. The @MarkJCarney Liberal Government would be first! See my exchange with Google at Public Safety Committee re C-22. ⬇️
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@scottastevenson @MTemkin @TechCrunch Fun fact: If your ARR is higher than your annual expenses, you don't need VCs.
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Excellent reporting by @MTemkin at @TechCrunch on how AI companies are inflating revenue by reporting CARR as ARR.
Please retweet so that we can get back to reality and permanently kill CARR as a valuation anchor. Delusion is not good for anyone.
"One VC told TechCrunch that he has seen companies where CARR is 70% higher than ARR, even though a significant chunk of that contracted revenue will never actually materialize."
“Investors can’t call it out,” a VC told TechCrunch. “Everyone has a company monetizing CARR as ARR.”
The biggest thing that has surprised me since my tweet went viral was the amount of nervous, sheepish laughter from VCs on the topic:
"Haha... Oh, I'm not sure if it's that big a deal 🙂"
While other VCs say privately:
"We see this constantly and it's becoming a serious problem."
techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/how…
Scott Stevenson@scottastevenson
It’s time to expose a huge scam in AI startups: Contracted ARR The reason many AI startups are crushing revenue records is because they are using a dishonest metric The biggest funds in the world are supporting this and misleading journalists for PR coverage. The setup: Company signs 3-year enterprise deals. Year 1 is discounted (say $1M), Year 2 steps up ($2M), Year 3 is full price ($3M). They report $3M as “ARR” — even though they’re only collecting $1M right now. The worst part: The customer has an opt-out option at 12 months! It’s not actually a 3 year contract. In the chart below, by Q5 the company is trumpeting ~$100M “ARR” to press, while actual cash-generating, in-effect ARR is ~$35M. That’s ~3x inflation. On top of this, enterprise AI companies are bundling full-time “forward deployed engineers” into deals massively reducing margins, sometimes producing Year 1 negative margins. At some point customers are going to start triggering their opt-out clauses or aggressively negotiating down Year 3 pricing. And a wave of enterprise AI companies may collapse.
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@BrightFuts People who live in North Korea think North Korea is great too. Until they visit South Korea.
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@windscribecom Why is everyone shitting on Nord? It's actually quite great.
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Chat, we finally made it. We've been invited into the prestigious and ultra exclusive NordVPN affiliate program.
We can finally become the snake oil salesmen our parents always dreamed of.
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@ctbutt114 corpo slop, they probably spend more money on marketing than actual product improvements, not to mention the multiple class action lawsuits against them for their terrible cancellation/refund flows
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@windscribecom Wait, is there an issue with Nord? I've been using them for at least 4 or 5 years, only learned about you guys recently.
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@Safety_Canada What if the metaphorical wildfire is our whole country? And you are the ones setting the fire?
Not sure a full tank of gas is helpful here.
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If a wildfire occurs in your area, be prepared to evacuate with short notice.
- Keep your vehicle fully fueled
- Check if neighbours need help
- Move animals away from danger
Learn more from your provincial or territorial emergency management organization: canada.ca/en/services/po…
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In Canada, your tax money goes to funding propaganda accounts on social media. Every post from this profile is just straight up lying to you about Bill C-22 and its consequences.
The bill can force any business that so much as touches the internet in Canada to store metadata about what you do for a year, so that law enforcement can have access to it if needed.
This is like saying "No no, the police aren't watching you through your windows and writing down everything you do... they're just forcing your landlord to install cameras in each room and keep a year of footage so that if police ever need to check, the evidence exists."
Public Safety Canada@Safety_Canada
(1/2) Part 2 of Bill C-22 does not create new authorities, such as surveillance powers, for law enforcement and CSIS. It ensures that electronic service providers are able to respond to lawful access requests from law enforcement and CSIS.
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@TooBitrudeuk What happens when you try that configuration? What's the error that YouTube spits out?
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@windscribecom It doesn't like me being on your VPN and not signed in, so alas it no longer works in my house, as far as the kid is concerned 👌🏻👊🏻
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For the first time in many years, I had the displeasure of using the stock YouTube app on Android without Premium.
The amount of ads is criminal.
Truly abhorrent experience.
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@404Alta It's bad... it's really bad. I have no idea how people can put up with this experience. And to think, it's even worse on the YouTube TV aps.
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@windscribecom I haven't seen a YouTube ad in like 10 years. I can't even imagine how bad it is right now
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@Sefray1 "Would you like a side of content with your ads, sir?"
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@xyder_vx I straight up don't use YouTube on mobile because of this. And if I do, then I will find... alternative methods that aren't as cancerous 👀
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