Surprised to see Mozilla has started peddling VPN services.
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This seems very close to "Your computer is broadcasting an IP address".
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Replying to @_WilliamRigby
It doesn't make security sense, but is very profitable. You can resell cheap bandwidth at a markup with very little overhead, which has lead to an explosion in providers (you've probably seen the ads). This summary is mostly accurate.https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29 …
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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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Fine, but nobody would object to making good security more accessible. I would object to a cynical cash-grab with affiliate marketing or reselling worthless VPN subscriptions.
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Replying to @taviso @_WilliamRigby
I will happily agree that most VPN providers' marketing is deceptive. Unfortunately the advantage of VPS over VPN is basically security-by-obscurity anyway, so any successful attempt to make it more accessible will erode that.
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