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I'm curious, how does VPNs break the internet? The only angle I can immediately see is the shortage of IPV4s.

• dcow 4y ago
  They break the practical solutions to content distribution and delivery that we've deployed. If everyone used a VPN, CDNs and caching would be rendered ineffective. Generally, VPN consumers use more bandwidth than necessary to acquire the same content which does impact the network.
  • ipaddr 4y ago
    Don't use a VPN to promote CDN usage to save the global network some bandwidth? Just turn off javascript and/or images.
  • Dylan16807 4y ago
    Same bandwidth over my local connection, mildly more across backbone connections, not a big deal in total. I feel like if the bandwidth used by content distribution really mattered, we'd see a lot more effort being put into multicasting. Even a basic stateless "multiple destination IPs" version could save so much bandwidth.
  • fomine3 4y ago
    It disables efficiency from distributed CDN, but don't break internet. There were no CDN on early internet.
  • nottorp 4y ago
    And CDNs can and probably will build a profile of you and sell it to the highest bidder.