Google’s maps are decent and can also be downloaded to be offline…? But yeah, it seems like it’s a nice alternative, especially if you want to be free from Google’s grips.

certain public features of telegram that do allow you to report illegal materials have been used to spread them.

I don’t understand, what do you mean? Does clicking “report” on a message not simply send a report to moderators only?

CSS wouldn’t be used to spy on your network traffic; if they wanted your internet data, they’d have much simpler methods to collect it than CSS (and they wouldn’t be able to decode most of that data anyways in normal cases).

or who I am accessing it from

What do you mean by that?

Suggesting that a VPN could mitigate stuff relating to CSS is like wearing a floating vest 24/7 when flying in a Boeing plane: you might feel a bit safer with it on, but it’d probably be smarter to have a parachute instead.

A VPN won’t really do anything against CSS/IMSI catchers.

In many places its illegal to not accept cash.

Where? I can’t think of many places where that’d be true.

Yeah, but many European countries have moved to require registration of prepaid cards “to stop criminals” or something like that. So you can still usually buy them with cash and whatever, but you won’t be able to activate or use it until you confirm your identity.

That’s an inherent problem with shared connections.

The thing with sites telling you that your login is incorrect is also sometimes intentional, so people trying to brute-force logins won’t realize they’re getting blocked or just that their attempt was incorrect.

And yes, the only possibility is to try a different server that hasn’t been abused, or run your own.

The deletion isn’t automatic/immediate if I recall correctly? If you accidentally log in within 30 days, they cancel deletion automatically.

nitpicking special cases

Wallhacking isn’t a special case…? It’s one of the most common cheats and gives an enormous advantage.

that you assume are unsolvable

So again, what’s your master method? The server doesn’t send player positions until nearly within the other player’s sight, but even that already gives a huge advantage and is nothing the server can do about it via non-LAN networks, otherwise people will be “popping out” / managing to attack the other player before their position was even received by the player being attacked.

Certain genres of games can work well with only server-side anticheat, but FPS isn’t one of them.

And then you read my previous message about that working very badly due to lag interpretation for example?

it is sufficient to detect it and enforce consequences

So how do you propose detecting that a client is rendering a model that shouldn’t be rendered (because it’s behind a solid wall for example) without some client-side anticheat?

implementing it is cheaper/easier than server-side

In many cases, 100% impossible. Take a first person shooter for example, how can you prevent wallhacking server-side? The only way is to not tell clients positions until the enemy is very close by, and then you get big problems with any kinds of lag interpolation etc.

Yeah, I thought they already do something like that with REAL ID?

Without direct connection, PMS uses Plex Relays, which limit streams to like 320p.

There are many crawlers, and I’m confident at least a couple have tried to connect to your server (unless you have an IP firewall, or if you’ve changed Plex Media Sever’s default port, in which case significantly less likely).

I assume it’s not really about them watching content, but to avoid them exploiting any possible PMS bugs.

You are now not hosting publicly available links

That’s also the case with open trackers (without indexers), yet I’ve gotten shut down way too many times. But that made me wonder, does this project share metadata if someone else in the DHT swarm queries for an info_hash you have, or does it simply “leech”? Pretty cool project regardless.

This gets rid of any questionably legal gray area of using sites like Nyaa, etc for Torrent links

Except that now you’re asking the swarm for metadata behind a boatload of info_hashes? Unlikely anyone would care (though you’d be surprised how many DMCAs I get when just having a simple open tracker running, not even an indexet), but I don’t see it as being any less grey than using any existing sites.

I’m not well-versed on the subject, but can locked-in patients consent to these risks? How do we know they want to risk getting these life-threatening side effects?

Does your university allow you to use VPNs? Do they have any acceptable use policy? It’s unlikely they’ll care if you download a few cars, but they’ll probably get mad if you’re just trying to maximize bandwidth used for fun and wonder why you’re using so much.