I think pirating from smaller ISPs is advantageous. Simply because a lot of the staff could not be as tech savvy to understand what you’re downloading.

Big ISPs, it’s a little harder but challenging and possible, because they know what to expect.

  • muhyb@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    Just so let you know, if someone operates an ISP their staff is tech-savvy. Even if they are not, they still know what you download. They have logs and they are bound by law if some government agency wants your data. They will provide it.

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        22 hours ago

        incog is ONLY useful to keep your browsing “safe” on your machine from someone looking at your history. Your ISP still knows where you went and logged it, you need a VPN to potentially hide from your ISP. Or, live in a place that won’t cough up your info. Historically in Canada, if we get “caught” pirating our ISP sends us the letter they received, wag their finger at us and move on, I’ve caught a few letters due to the kid