Like, it may or may not have been true there was someone keeping track of your purchases before But now there DEFINITELY is -- the rando you just hired to go to the market for you And moreover, said rando KNOWS FOR A FACT THAT YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT THIS
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Like holy shit this is basic shit You know the easiest way blackmailers find people to blackmail? They go advertising themselves as altruistic do-gooders whose job it is to protect you from being blackmailed
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The metaphor covers all the problems with this honestly Like, all you're doing is paying the guy to buy your shopping list for you The store *still knows what the purchases are*, they *have to*, you're buying it from them
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So if an evil government takes over and demands Kroeger hand over the list of everyone who's bought gouda cheese to the feds... The list still exists All they have to do is tell them "Oh it's that guy who buys gouda in bulk, he's probably buying for everyone in the nieghborhood"
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So now they just have to arrest the one guy, and get his customer list Now you're putting all your trust in him to somehow be immune to arrest or unwilling to cooperate So how much do you trust this guy? Like do you even know who he is? He's just someone who sponsored a podcast
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Ironically, if everyone just bought their own gouda from the store it would probably be a lot harder to hunt them all down one by one, poring over all of the store's records of everyone who ever went there
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When everyone worried about prosecution bundles themselves up onto one VPN's customer list, they make themselves a big fat juicy target for anyone willing to go after them It's the whole maxim that "80% of keeping a secret is not acting like you have a secret"
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I mostly just don't want to give the NYT my email address to read the free articles.
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VPNs as a tool for very mildly illicit shit like getting around region-locking or ISP throttling are really a different conversation entirely The VPNs actively advertising themselves as protecting you from the feds if the Nazis take over are in a different, much shadier business
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I think most people use VPNs to connect to a database at their institution, or to connect to coolmathgames dot com while at their institution
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