I don’t follow the logic here. There seems to be an implication of ulterior motive but I’m not seeing what it is. What aspect of ‘privacy’ offered by a VPN do you think that Reddit / LinkedIn are incentivised to bypass? From a privacy POV, your VPN is doing nothing to them, because your IP address means very little to them from a tracking POV. This is just FUD perpetuated by VPN advertising.
However, the undeniable reality is that accessing the website with a non-residential IP is a very, very strong indicator of sinister behaviour. Anyone that’s been in a position to operate one of these services will tell you that. For every…let’s call them ‘privacy-conscious’ user, there are 10 (or more) nefarious actors that present largely the same way. It’s easy to forget this as a user.
I’m all but certain that if Reddit or LinkedIn could differentiate, they would. But they can’t. That’s kinda the whole point.
Yep. Not that it’s necessarily happening here, but I always…sigh deeply, let’s say, when something that’s described by Americans as “an $x industry problem” is actually ‘an America problem, manifesting in the $x industry’.
OpenSSH does it “nicely” for you maybe. I’ll maybe even accept “for most users of an SSH client”. This behaviour implemented in a browser is utterly unacceptable. The average user is orders of magnitude less technically capable.
You are not the only user of the software that you use.
This sounds like some sort of attempt at Ultimate Scope Creep. How did we get from ‘licensing faux-issue’ to ‘a complete rebuild with a very complex architecture just to support the plugin ecosystem’?