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My main adversary is my own ISP. VPNs are perfect for that. My secondary adversary are companies geoblocking content. VPNs are still perfect for that.
by Semaphor 3y ago
My main adversary is my own ISP. VPNs are perfect for that.
My secondary adversary are companies geoblocking content. VPNs are still perfect for that.
- didntcheck 3y agoWhich VPNs do you find effective for the second purpose? My small experience of using VPNs is that you just end up suffering from the poor reputation of your exit IPs, which rarely stay secret for long. So you end up blocked or at least frequently CAPTCHA'd on sites that wouldn't have blocked your own IP, and I imagine those that are doing geoblocking have a big blacklist of VPN IPs (I know BBC iPlayer does)
- Semaphor 3y agoI rarely have the need, I use mullvad, and it works for those occasions. But I don’t need to circumvent any serious blocks, most of the time it’s just something being US-only or "not EU", and neither of those sites care much if you circumvent it.