• Beebabe@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I love your recommendation. Unfortunately I am very out of the loop with that sort of thing these days. And I’m without resources if I accidentally break something. I need my desktop for work as well. I’d be happy to read up on the topic if you could suggest some reputable sources that someone without a tech background could break down. It’s why I save it all up until summer. So I pay them as little as possible.

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      7 hours ago

      I beleive this is where dbzer0 would come in… So basically, you are going to want a VPN first, which they are pretty easy to get and use and there are plenty of resources online, I would suggest going for a trusted one such as Proton VPN or Nord VPN. Then as for how to actually get movies/shows, you are going to want to install firefox (if you don’t have it) and then add the ‘ublock’ extention to block popups and other nasty things. Then once you have that, you can check out the sites in our megathread, they are safe and trusted: https://rentry.co/megathread-movies-and-tv . Let me know if you need more help. :)

      Edit:
      firfox - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
      Ublock - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

      • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        I too am out of the loop but why not use tor? The VPN companies can still trace it back to you if what you did turned out to be illegal.

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          Because streaming over tor is 1) painfully slow and 2) a dick move for the whole network that is very important to others.

          VPN don’t give a crap about people pirating, and governments probably don’t as much as people think (I guess that depends heavily on your country), but if you really want to be safe, go for one of the logless vpn, like mullvad or ivpn.

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          That’s why I suggested trusted vpn companies. Proton keeps no logs, so they couldn’t hand it over if even they wanted to. I also suggested VPN as opposed to TOR because TOR can be fiddly*, and complicated because of that to a non-techy person (which is what this person had said they were). The speeds of TOR are also not good for streaming.