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Buy a 2 year VPN subscription. Any free service raises the question of how it is funding itself. If you aren't paying you're the product.
While that would probably work, as I already said, I do not want to pay for one. It's less about the money but more about that I'd have to give them all my information - my name, credit card details and so on. And I am not willing to do that, as a VPN is only private until the government or whoever asks for all your data, which would include the Website and the fact that I visited it.
If you're concerned about payment info, some VPNs like Mullvad let you buy a voucher/gift card from Amazon so they dont get your payment info, and you don't have any account info, just a randomly generated number no email/password stuff.
That way there's no payment info tied to you, and no account login tied to you either, you just have to memorize/note down the generated number
Thanks, that might be an idea. I would still definitely prefer a way to do it for free, but as a last option, I'll look into this. Edit: Just found out that it costs €5 per month, no matter what. I could almost buy Netflix from that...
As has been noted, if you're not the customer, you're the product. You can't expect to get free, safe, and private. You'll have to pick what you value more.
It’s less about the money
is at odds with
Edit: Just found out that it costs €5 per month, no matter what. I could almost buy Netflix from that…
Personally, I prefer to give my money to Mullvad than to Netflix.
I cancelled cable TV ($100) , Netflix (which in Canada is $16+tax without ads) and Prime (it's too easy to buy stuff there as well, I'm trying to support more local stores), downgraded my Internet to 150Mbps because I calculated my usage and discovered I was paying for speeds I very rarely really needed, MMORPG gaming is less than 1Mbps, streaming HD <10Mbps, streaming 4K <30Mbps (though I don't do that), instead I only pay for Mullvad and cheaper Internet. I save a lot every month from that perspective.
In addition I occasionally need Mullvad for other things than bittorrent, like to access websites in other countries/etc. It can be handy to have a VPN sometimes.
Usenet and hard drives. LOTS of hard drives.
How many hard drives are we talking
I've done nothing but teleport hard drives for three days
Vpn.
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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