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Living in Japan, I am familiar with a number of people who might try to use your software to make it appear as though they are coming from the United States, so
by gillygize 15y ago
Living in Japan, I am familiar with a number of people who might try to use your software to make it appear as though they are coming from the United States, so that they could access Hulu or similar websites which are blocked abroad.
I know that, with AWS, you can choose a data center in Asia, so I suppose this type of action will not necessary work with Cloak. I am just interested if you have a policy for dealing with such behavior? It might represent a drain on bandwidth, for example.
- davepeck 15y agoHi gillygize, Our full terms of service and policies are listed here: https://www.getcloak.com/policies/ https://www.getcloak.com/policies/ There are a lot of shady looking (to me, at least) VPN providers that make a big deal about how you can pretend you're in another country, etc. To me, that's code word for "you can do bad stuff with us." We're not interested in that -- we think that security should be easy for everyone -- and so, yes, we get to decide where your back-end is located. There are other abuse issues unrelated to location that we've taken pains to prevent, too.
- seanalltogether 15y agoAs someone who travels abroad half of the year I was thinking the same thing. I really miss having access to so many great services just because I'm outside the country at that moment in time. I try to avoid public proxies because they seem so shady, but I would purchase from a reputable company like this if it meant I could explicitly select a center located in the US.