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Yup, this is more a reason to use a VPN.
by mdorazio 10y ago
Yup, this is more a reason to use a VPN.
- teaneedz 10y agothis.
- helthanatos 10y agoVPNs cost money. Until it is forced, there isn't much of a point in using a VPN (besides AT&T's wonderful spying track record). VPNs are great but until more are free, it's better to deal with switching a setting.
- mschuster91 10y ago> Until it is forced, there isn't much of a point in using a VPN Well, America just elected Trump to office, and here in Europe the situation doesn't look much better (crisis law in France, calls for more and more surveillance state across Europe, and right-wing populists/extremists gaining power in country by country). I'd say there has never been a better argument for VPN/Tor usage than right now.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoMs Clinton did not communicate any intentions of shutting down the NSA domestic surveillance apparatus, part of Obama's legacy (which she campaigned on).
- walterbell 10y agoVPN to a home broadband device is free, modulo ISP data caps.
- dogma1138 10y agoIf they just throttle your bandwidth and not play around with CDN's (ISP's actually mirror and cache YT and Netflix videos) then it doesn't matter. If they only give you 1mbit/s of bandwidth you aren't going to be watching HD videos unless you are willing to let it constantly buffer, and there are also ways for them to screw with that like resetting the connection every 5min or so.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoI've never seen an ISP use TCP resets against any traffic other than BitTorrent, but I suppose it could be done by a particularly aggressive operator.