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Is anyone actually pretending it’s different? Most people I talk to buy VPN services to avoid legal threats from pirated movies or to avoid traffic surveillanc
by relax88 5y ago
Is anyone actually pretending it’s different?
Most people I talk to buy VPN services to avoid legal threats from pirated movies or to avoid traffic surveillance from their local ISP / workplace / institution.
I’ve never heard someone describe it like a hard-to-denonymize tor node or anything.
- eloff 5y agoLots of services are advertised that way. It's probably half the ads I encounter on YouTube.
- relax88 5y agoHmm, I block all ads at the network level so maybe I’m just out of the loop on this topic.
- yosito 5y agoAlso to prevent people on your local network from snooping on your traffic and stealing credentials and other sensitive data that might be passed over the wire. I once had my AWS API keys compromised this way. It was a pain to resolve that situation. I'm a lot more careful now.
- switch007 5y ago> I once had my AWS API keys compromised this way. Presumably you were copying them over the network unencrypted?