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The Next (De)Generation (media.piefed.world)
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[–] -3 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

As long as the VPN isn't a front for residential proxies and routing bot traffic over your endpoint, doing god knows what. If they've been heavily advertised at some point, they most likely are.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    What sketchy ass VPN's have you been using?

    Get something from a well known provider like Proton, iVPN, or Mullvad.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    Proton and Mullvad are probably fine yeah. Nord, Surfshark and Express are definitely very sus though, Nord even has known ties to Oxylabs.

    Torrenting for personal use is legal where I live so I don't have to use any, I'm just saying be mindful if you do.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    "most of them are (if advertised heavily)" is quite a claim without data to back it up.

    At least for the one I tested none of them sent additional traffic over my connection. That's just one data point and I only looked to ones with port forwarding but still far away from your claim.

    There are a shitload of VPN tests out there and testing id your connection gets used by third parties for not traffic is even possible for a layperson.

    Please stop fear mongering without remedies or specifics.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Eh, "thing I really want, but provided for free" combined with "thing we really want you to use, for free" -

    We should maybe put fear mongering directly on that, I think. Free things, that cost real money to provide, that cost no money to use - we should maybe fear monger a little.

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