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I have lived in the UK and NZ.

• sniuff 8y ago
  Half of the web is blocked in UK
  • SCdF 8y ago
    Hyperbole aside, if I ever ran up against sites that were blocked then sure: you could then get a VPN to solve that problem. Similarly, if I gave a shit about using content that is licenced differently in different countries (if I wanted the US netflix or whatever) then a VPN could be useful there as well. That's got nothing to do with privacy particularly, which is the direction my opinion is coming from (rightly or wrongly).
• kabacha 8y ago
  LMAO - Probably the worst two countries to trust your ISP. Both are five eyes countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes#Domestic_espionage_sharing_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes#Domestic_espionage_s...
  • SCdF 8y ago
    If by countries you mean the west end of europe and north america then yes, 5 eyes is a comparatively shitty indictment of those countries regard for their citizen's privacy. You're ignoring continents worth of countries and billions of people to get there though.
• dastx 8y ago
  Bit late reply. And yes, UK and NZ are part of the five eyes. I'm a UK resident. My ISP is a small start up that has started less than a few years ago. One of the few companies that provide residential 1gbps. You'd expect such a company to at least act good and snoop etc. I still refuse to trust my ISP. All ISPs are legally required to retain all user activity for a while. As someone already mentioned, I can't be 100% sure my VPN isn't spying on me, but I can be 100% sure my ISP is. I'd rather risk the former.