![]() ![]() at least until China cracks down on these, but it works for now. Getting around an ISP-level (or country-level) firewall, such as accessing the rest of the Internet from inside China. Getting access to another country's streaming catalog, assuming the streaming service hasn't banned your VPN yet. but how many of those do you use anymore? Like, Reddit just casually uses SSL now, so even your ISP can only see that you are a Redditor, they won't even know you're on r/linux. Using insecure stuff from public wifi, like a website that uses HTTP instead of HTTPS. But this is just other stuff you can do with VPN tech, it's not what Nord/Proton do. If you run certain old LAN games, you could run a VPN to connect a bunch of friends over the Internet into a virtual LAN to play them. To be fair, VPNs are genuinely useful for a lot of things, I just don't think even most r/linux users need the commercial ones:Ĭonnecting to another network (not just the Internet) - like, if you work from home, there's a good chance your employer makes you connect to a work VPN to get onto the work network. ![]() In fact, I'd suggest that most people probably do not need a VPN in the first place, and most of the advertising telling you that you do is so dishonest it's actually gotten these companies fined. ![]()
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