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by easyas124 844 days ago
Web apps are absolutely not always on, and they are absolutely not more anonymous...
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freedomben 843 days ago
I think it's pretty obvious from the context that GP is talking about a self-hosted web app on a VPS or cloud provider. It's a lot more "always on" than your smartphone, and the anonymity is the same.
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xnx 844 days ago
AWS uptime is better than any server I've run at home, and an AWS IP is less personally identifiable than my home IP.
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