How does this make any sense when buying 2 of the cases is half the price while also faster and easier to swap? It would maybe make sense if it swapped out the actual phone battery. Maybe that’s their end goal, but how does it make sense at all to sell this as a real product?
If there was a Lemmy account setting to automatically bypass the proxy on failure then it might not require any front end work, but the manual bypass button would definitely need to be implemented in each client
Have you thought about solving this issue in the front end? The client I’m using (Mlem) implemented a feature to directly access the image if the proxy fails. This feature can either be triggered automatically or by pressing a button on the failed image. This allows users the benefit of the proxy while also having the option to give up their IP if they want to see a broken image.
Are you saying enabling the setting to allow web access is downgrading your security? I think the security risk is super minimal. You need physical access to one of your devices to approve access every time.
Clicking an external link exposes your IP address to the server. All someone has to do is send a link that looks like something you want but actually just logs your ip address and you’re doxxed.
It depends on how you’re streaming it, but if you use some service that streams a torrent directly and then throws it away afterwards you took the torrent data without contributing anything back to the swarm
You can’t afford $10/month for something you use many times per day? Are you paying for any streaming services? Those cost way more per daily use.