I think the author missed the mark here by talking about game preservation, as many are already pointing out in these comments.

The real benefit of buying a physical disc/cartridge copy of a game nowadays is the ability to resell it when you’re done playing. That’s actually a huge boon if you buy a lot of newly released games at full price, and play on consoles where sales are less common than PC. Reselling games can save you a LOT of money over time.

You get what you pay for. If you are actually concerned about your privacy, then go with Mullvad. If you just want to download stuff for free without getting caught, then Privado is probably fine.

1. If you’re connecting to random free Wi-Fi, you’re leaving yourself wide open to attacks.
2. A lot of security researchers play with penetration testing scenarios like this. It’s how you learn to defend against techniques that real attackers use.

Eh? I don’t understand. Either it works on Linux, or it doesn’t. Seems like the author just doesn’t know how to troubleshoot some compatibility issue on whatever desktop Linux distro they’re using.

Lol this sounds like toothless bullshit. Are they confident that these people live in the US? Do they even know if these two twitter accounts are run by single individuals?