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Modern VPN usage means do not have understood the purpose of a VPN... Using a VPN as a proxy to circumvent geographical block is reasonable to a certain extent

• hedora 4y ago
  VPNs help with privacy when the alternative is known to be malicious, as most US ISP connections are.
  • kkfx 4y ago
    So... An unknown commercial VPN hoster who happen to sell so called now "VPNs", with a siege in British Virgin Island (for instance) is not malicious while a local ISP, obliged to follow national laws you probably know is worse? It's hard to believe for me... If I host my VPN for instance to include some remote machines to my LAN, or as a company to offer a LAN to nomadic clients, that's a thing. If I decide to route 100% of my traffic to some servers in exotic locations where no privacy laws exists, where I probably never ever look for a local lawyer just because of lack of norms, language and costs issues, it's IMVHO a crazy choice like those who regularly buy "anti-5G radiation-absorber stickers" or "air purifier" and things like that. My ISP might spy on me, surely they do, but we have a contract under local laws we both knows, we speak the same language, I have a local lawyer I trust etc. Using something else to circumvent eventual geo-blocks ok, but for the rest? How can I trust more an unknown third from exotic places telling in its advertisement "we care about privacy"?