Surprised to see Mozilla has started peddling VPN services.
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This the first time I do not completely follow something you say/link to. This article mixes up a few things. It's far from completely wrong technically, but it is still wrong enough. (Done commenters put it nicely below the gist)
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I think it's fine. People are not asking what service they should use to defeat geolocation, and they're not sold as anti-geolocation services. If they were, I wouldn't have a problem with them.
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dominant use case for VPNs (that I've seen) is just people who want a glorified proxy, but 1. can't/don't want to go to the trouble of running their own VPN on a VPS, and 2. don't want to deal with the hassle of application-specific proxy servers still entirely valid for that
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that article is correct about security, but its recommendation for the actual use case is kinda "don't <do the trivial thing>, instead <do something that most people don't have technical ability to do>!"
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This article assumes all ISP/traffic nodes are created equal. My parent's ISP in India, literally sends malware redirect for HTTP traffic. This mostly due to security incompetence and their serving infra is riddled with malwares. I installed VPN as a safe passage out of that mess
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We need to deprecate HTTP, but a VPN isn't the solution, it just moves the problem around a bit. Mozilla usually agree with this, e.g. https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/30/deprecating-non-secure-http/ …. I suppose they've changed their minds

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