Hi,
Lately I’ve been looking into Usenet, and maybe this time I was planning to try it out (I am aware of Usenet since circa 2000s, so I sort of know what it is).
Still there are some things I still didn’t figure out:
- from what I see a Usenet provider and an indexer is required. And from what I gather, both are paid (indexer not exclusively paid but its better). Considering what Usenet is used for, is it sort if a requirement to pay in btc?
- what sort of content is usually Usenet more useful for?
- for what I see, Usenet tends to use SSL like the rest of the web. However, i would argue it gives to the ISP the visibility that you are in fact at least starting/ending connections to Usenet. Is this an issue? If so, does it make VPN a mandatory requirement? Or orbot for that matter
- one thing that bothers me greatly: I’ve checked the privacy policy for the most 3 known providers (news hosting, Usenet server and euweka) and, first of all, i find incredibly sus that these seemingly 3 different providers have a sort of copy pasted privacy policy. Then, I noticed there is this magic line on it
Communicate with you about products, services, promotions, events, and other news and information we think will be of interest to you.
So I assume they are selling data somehow to advertisers?
they are all owned under the same company, these are just three different brands they operate under. they arent the best privacy wise and would probably roll over on you if push came to shove.
Do people tend to use different providers? Because these I got from a search, and ended up on the same usual suspects that I am almost sure all of them were ai written
Yes plenty of other providers. you see those 4 or 5 in search because they pay big money to be there. There are also a lot of fake review websites that pimp them because they pay a lot of money to those sites to suggest them. something the small providers can not compete with.