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Bypassing country firewalls. Accessing Netflix content from other countries. Protecting yourself when torrenting. It's also sold using the same scare tactics t
by Philip-J-Fry 5y ago
Bypassing country firewalls. Accessing Netflix content from other countries. Protecting yourself when torrenting.
It's also sold using the same scare tactics that Anti-Virus is sold. By making people think their connections are insecure unless they use a VPN. So it pulls in a lot of the less tech savvy people who will most likely just use it for Netflix and further encrypting their traffic.
I don't think it's a bubble because countries are trying to implement all these weird laws and monitor the internet more and more. The UK for example wanted to introduce identity checks for consuming Porn. They can't do that when you can VPN to some other country.
- mbesto 5y ago> Accessing Netflix content from other countries. Are there any VPN services that actually do this? AFAIK all of them get blocked (i.e. they are known IPs). I've even tried to spin up a Digital Ocean server to route my traffic and Netflix blocked it.
- penagwin 5y agoYes! However it gets a bit complex, as they're using dns based geofencing so there's some extra steps.
- paulryanrogers 5y agoMy local ISP injected notices (ads for their services essentially) into my non-HTTPS traffic. VPNs can help bypass hostile ISPs.
- blibble 5y agohow much non-HTTPs traffic is there these days?
- paulryanrogers 5y agoNot much yet IME they could also strip away HTTPS unless there is HSTS.
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- anchpop 5y agoonly if you’ve never visited the site before and you didn’t access it by clicking a link starting with https:// https://
- nieve 5y agoProtecting yourself from your ISP tracking and modifying your traffic for ad & data broker purposes.