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Discussion Thread 🌏 Saturday 26 July 2025 (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

VPN would get me banned or shadowbanned from socmed but I want to look into VPN for general use anyway.

The free ones have a reputation for being dodgy so I’m wondering about the free one included with the Opera browser?

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[–] imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I use Brave browser when also has a VPN option and lots of inbuilt "do not track" privacy settings. I've not used the VPN much but just adding it as an option for yiu

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[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I’ll look into it, thanks

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[–] bacon@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago