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What should a VPN be for if not privacy?
by kadoban 6y ago
What should a VPN be for if not privacy?
- wmf 6y agoAccessing legacy corporate networks.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoproviding a thin smokescreen of plausibility that you are actually in the country you need to be in to access a particular media resource. Which for some reason I don't expect Google's VPN to help you with at all.
- lima 6y ago> Which for some reason I don't expect Google's VPN to help you with at all. They explicitly say that the VPN will choose the nearest exit point for best performance so, no, it won't.
- d1zzy 6y agoGeographical IP relocation seems like a common reason to use it. Also just because Google may have access to some information it doesn't mean that everyone else has. You can't stop companies from gathering information when you interact with their services but you can do things to avoid having all that information aggregated (it would require using different IP addresses for different services, so a VPN can help, among other things).
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- snazz 6y agoSome public networks (like those at airports and coffee shops) still do sketchy things like injecting ads into HTTP sites and breaking DNS. A VPN is a great solution to these problems.
- dudus 6y agoMost of the time to access netflix catalogue from a different country.