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VPNs 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 ar
by helthanatos 10y ago
VPNs 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.