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Yeah, the days of your local coffee shops Wi-Fi being a problem or mostly gone. Not the VPN doesn’t have a place anymore though. If you’re trying to hide your downloading of ISOs from your ISP it’s still a perfectly reasonable method. Or temporarily relocating yourself to another country to make a purchase or watch some streaming content both perfectly reasonable.

Of course some of the streaming providers are getting wise to this.

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9 points

I have a VPN so I can securely access my home network when I’m away

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That’s not what these commercial VPNs are for.

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I use a VPN for the same reason I use the Internet. Porn.

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Yeah, pptp will always have a strong purpose and home. I’m more speaking to the viability of commercial anonymization VPN.

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I have a feeling you are using pptp as shorthand for Point to Point disregarding protocol and already knows what I’m about to say. To anyone else reading this - PPTP is obsolete and unsafe. Use an alternative such as OpenVPN, WireGuard or SSTP.

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why would I need to hide my terabytes of Linux ISO downloads?

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You don’t want their admin to contact you about how you’re a n00b for not using Arch.

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Because we see which distros you’re using, and we judge you for it.

Gentoo, in 2024? Really? You should be using Arch if that’s your thing. It’s not the 90s any more.

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Arch? I prefer EndeavorOS as it lets me easily install an arch distro using a nice GUi, I really don’t care about the nitty gritty of setting up my own network manually, i am like 99.9% of people in that regard

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24 points

Bill Gates, man, Bill Gates

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It’s all fun and games until a Microsoft Purity Enforcement squad is kicking in your door.

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