Just a snek on the internet | Call me Doppler (or just Snek) | He/they | Forever in love with my Cuddlefish 🖤🩶🤍💜
I use strict HTTPS-only mode in my web browser and legitimately can’t remember the last time it’s broken a website that I wasn’t personally hosting as a dev server. At this point, I would never expect to be able to keep my interactions with any website that doesn’t support HTTPS private, VPN or not.
No amount of traffic/DNS encryption actually hides where your requests are coming from, or where they are going to. Your IP address and the IP addresses of the sites you visit are always unencrypted. VPNs hide both of these; realistically that’s their sole purpose on the modern web.
Omg a fellow snek boi :D
Pretty sure it’s called a pound sign, no? Maybe I’m just old
Edit: Apparently it’s also called a “hash” or “number sign”. Funnily, “hashtag” is actually not considered a correct term for it