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It's especially fascinating how such a highly technical, rather nerd-ish concept is being marketed so widely. They did a great job there.
by EspressoGPT 3y ago
It's especially fascinating how such a highly technical, rather nerd-ish concept is being marketed so widely. They did a great job there.
- MattGaiser 3y agoIt has lots of practical uses such as evading Netflix geo-restrictions or getting around local network restrictions, even without considering privacy.
- mnd999 3y ago> Because a VPN in this sense is just a glorified proxy.
- coldtea 3y agoWhat else would a proper VPN be besides a particular way to have a internet-wide proxy (as opposed to e.g. just a web proxy)?
- mnd999 3y agoTraditionally it’s a mechanism to connect to a private network via a public one, for example to access a corporate network from home. But a proxy doesn’t have to be a web proxy. Socks proxies were pretty common at one time.