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fyrefoxboy12

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    Comment #23268895

    I'd love to agree, but speaking globally - if they had physical offices in India and in San Fran, they'd be paid based on the market value for the location. So the same probably go…

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    Comment #22791161

    Ah, sorry, didn't see it'd been submitted before

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    Comment #22726336

    With conspiracy theorists, it's always: if something big and bad happens, OBVIOUSLY someone is behind it. they don't accept that real life isn't about good/bad dichotomy, that ther…

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    Comment #22695988

    Well, I meant the full title when you click through to the page: "Top VPNs are recording users and potentially leaking their data when they visit their website" I had to truncate i…

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    Comment #22695209

    on the other hand, i'm surprised that PIA and Tunnelbear have so few trackers

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    Comment #22695177

    that's great. i didn't even notice that. automatic upvote

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    Comment #22694961

    I see what you mean. A little bit of "reasonable ignorance" but full understanding on the author's side that people don't read full sentences (or long titles). nonetheless, the res…

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    Comment #22694816

    I don't know what you can see, but the full title shows that it's about websites and their info section shows that they only analyzed websites. "In order to analyze these websites.…

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    Comment #22694189

    Thanks for the link. let me quickly check it out

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    Comment #22694024

    i don't know if that's particularly practical to build up your own VPN if that's your implication?

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    Comment #22693977

    I'm sure they really care about your "privacy" -- as long as they can track you and up their profits so, in total: a regular business

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    Comment #22691245

    As far as i know (form my college days in mid-2000s), we had this issue for setting up movie nights. Some people claimed that rented videos had an agreed-upon audience of (i think)…

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    Comment #22656761

    don't think it's a scam. forbes covered it ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/20/stunning-... ) although more neutrally than this title

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    Comment #22655955

    i guess he means -- either use an Android (google) phone, or use an Apple iOS phone. but is apple better than google in this sense (data collection)?

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    Comment #22655510

    isn't the census about to start this year? this is some "same shit, different toilet" scenario. all these so-called secure government institutions or private companies or wherever …