Okay, now I see which article you are referring to.
I know knowledge-zero, but we have different points, mine was not about the inability to do it but how the government will do it.
It would be very easy for them to justify that they have to identify pedos, I would be very surprised if they would guarantee privacy. But whatever, unfortunately I guess we’ll find out.
Firefox’s cookie management is absolutely terrible and anachronistic, forget about automated granular control. It also has serious bugs like this one, it’s better to use containers for any site where you want a whitelist.
There are some addons to help you manage it, but I think they are all flawed or broken.
More than posting their own channels or doing it on an anti-privacy website, I am annoyed by the medium itself. Even if it’s a topic of interest, videos can become really tedious depending on the author with no practical way to get around it, plus very little accessibility; it’s always more convenient in text.
The Tor project themselves reccomend against using their service with a VPN
The devs say it as general advice for those who don’t know what they are doing.. It’s perfectly fine as long as you don’t try to set up strange configurations and you can trust your vpn provider.
You have already read the whole argumentation of the anti_tor+vpn fanatics (yep, they exist): The tor devs don’t recommend it.
What they will never tell you is that the devs say it as general advice for those who don’t know what they are doing.
The (real) points against it can be summed up in two, that certain unusual configurations (that you would never apply accidentally or as a newbie) are insecure, and that vpn providers might not be reliable.
I’ve been browsing valetudo, I was a bit surprised that almost all installations are rated to some degree “easy”, even though many devices require things that are not at all accessible such as assembling and soldering your circuit board; I don’t want to know what a device rated as difficult would be like.
Unfortunately doing so anonymously is not an option for many countries.