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TIL every corp in the world are sketchy people for using VPN.
That isn't what they're banning, and you know it.
First question that need to asked from everyone including ownself , why you need VPN?
Bypassing censorship is the biggest one. No, they don't work on Netflix. But they work on many things.
If you setup your own VPN with an exit at a residential address, it will work fine. There are some commercial offerings around this. Just as soon as you start needing exits that aren't in data-centres the cost skyrockets.
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Instead of an out-of-state vpn, why not an out-of-state home? Why do people put up with the lack of freedom there? People complain about European countries but then praise states like Texas. (Realistically, moving is easier said than done, of course.)
A VPN is 5 dollars. People are not as privileged as you assume and very few chose their location based on age verification laws. European countries have restrictions on freedom of speech which is a strongly held value in America.
> VPNs in particular have been tossed around as something that the UK government would like to ban (citation needed/lacking!) It was widely covered (like at https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2217934/vpn-ban-table-july... ) and tech sec. Liz Kendall is on the record with BBC talking about July.
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> A handful of VPN providers become a one stop shop to get the data of what used to be hundreds or thousands of ISP's all over the world in many jurisdictions just as a few big DNS over HTTPS providers become a one stop shop to get the DNS of what used to be hundreds or thousands of ISP's all over the world. This is backward. How many ISPs do you have to choose from? Only a couple because there is limited and local i…
Instead of backward I would say it's looking in from a different window. Both your dilemma and the one I described can both be true. I am not suggesting to not use a VPN but rather load-balance and cycle through a mesh of user-provided VPN's that do not have a money trail so that neither your local ISP nor a big juicy centralized provider have your data. As for disclosure of people being busted I would expect gag ord…
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Most of the big VPN companies known from advertisments all over the internet are probably honeypots of the usual countries.
Of all possible scenarios this seems one of the least bad. Government is less likely to sell you out and they can't really use the information to prosecute you legally without revealing "oh btw we were behind that VPN", which is kind of a one time trick.
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Perhaps people missed that, and would like to start a new discussion? It didn't know there was a quota on discussions of any particular topic, perhaps we should give out tickets to the event in the future to ensure no-one misses their opportunity to join the discourse?
> It didn't know there was a quota on discussions of any particular topic It’s in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#reposts “Are reposts ok? If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.” Alternately, here are comments by moderator dang that mention reposting: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&…
If the post is flagged, that does the job of solving that for us, but telling people not to start a discussion on a subject "because we've been there before" is S tier gatekeeping, and that's what I was opposing.
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Yes correct, I vehemently disagree with people who say things like the first paragraph. I definitely should have been more clear that that was not my opinion, but it's too late to edit now
Eh, I think I disagree. We should support a convention of reading all of the paragraphs to the posts we are responding to, not just the first one.
VPNs are just tools that sketchy people use for sketchy means. There's no legitimate use for someone who isn't trying to break the law. Allowing these tools let's underage people access porn, and do all manner of undesirable behaviors like accessing region locked content. I have actually heard otherwise intelligent people say things just like that, including site operators who run nontrivial websites. There are of co…
I use a VPN to have access to my HomeAssistant instance at home, where I can control every aspect of the house. Without this, I would have to pay for a domain name, manage the certificates, and exposing myself to external attacks. So, for me, a VPN reduces massively the attack surface. There is this law, where if you don't see the purpose of something, is probably because you never needed it. Which is fine, but don't…