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... this site is awful. It doesn't address the actual reason why people use VPN's. They don't want all their activities to be recorded/tracked by their ISP's (which depending on jurisdiction log everything for at least 6 months if not more) or other actors. And if somebody wants to deanonymize your traffic, they have to go to extra effort, whether it's by exploiting or establishing a relationship with your VPN host or whatever else. Or there are other use cases, like wanting to torrent in a country that is very liberal with serving fines (Germany).

And frankly, his alternatives are just absurd. Tor? Really? Has he ever tried to use Tor for usual daily browsing? Does he expect people to try to use Facebook, Instagram, Youtube over Tor? Really?



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