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PlainName:

--- Quote ---I did not name any companies, so no I don't believe that, because I don't know anything about this company or Swiss law.
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And yet you are happy to pronounce on other companies that you also don't know anything about. Perhaps you could share the names of the companies you do know about?


--- Quote ---I am simply advising careful consideration before you use one
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That's fine, but you seemed to be tarring them all with the same brush.

Karel:
I guess you can't trust whatever VPN provider for 100% but I believe that the "good" ones are better than the average internet service provider.
Specially if you are living in the EU where politicians are heading for chinese style mass surveillance.

madires:
AFAIK, for each good VPN (NAT) service there are at least 10 shady ones. Free ones usualy like to collect data and install malware. Several were caught lying about not keeping logs. Some use PPTP or L2TP which are insecure by today's standards. And a few already had data breaches.

madires:

--- Quote from: wilfred on October 21, 2023, 02:09:49 pm ---Using Microsoft Edge on WIN10 and Adblock Plus I got the warnings and then the timeout warning and then they stopped and I was getting a blank screen in the YT window for what I am assuming is the timeout to skip the ads before the video started playing.

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Don't know if it's related but uBlock has sometimes a similar quirk. When it happens an ad starts playing, but audio only. It's a race condition which can be easily fixed by reloading the page. After the reload I can enjoy the video without any ads.

NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: madires on October 22, 2023, 10:25:44 am ---AFAIK, for each good VPN (NAT) service there are at least 10 shady ones. Free ones usualy like to collect data and install malware. Several were caught lying about not keeping logs. Some use PPTP or L2TP which are insecure by today's standards. And a few already had data breaches.

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For some use cases (e.g. getting around geoblocking nonsense), it doesn't need to be particularly secure. It's also worth noting that one could connect to Tor and then one of those VPNs for torrenting (can't use Tor alone since it doesn't support routing UDP), in that case the logs would not show the user's actual IP.

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