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China doesn't have to control/centralize all of the internet - just enough that the vast majority of people cannot access content that cannot be policed. VPNs s
by q3k 6y ago
China doesn't have to control/centralize all of the internet - just enough that the vast majority of people cannot access content that cannot be policed. VPNs still very much work and are used by tech savvy there - but they are effectively useless for most people, thereby just making them not attractive.
- konjin 6y agoVPNs are the dumb persons idea of a secure internet. You've just sold all your secrets to a third party. Tor is a slightly better solution, but again, not by much. You're hoping that a randomly chosen VPN will not have an interest in what you're looking at and that the two VPNs behind it are owned by someone else so they can't correlate the metadata.
- prewett 6y agoIn my experience VPNs are used by everyone I’ve interacted with, including very tech unsavvy users.