Posted on 10/21/2023 9:43:02 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Interesting they didn’t look at usage by Baby Boomers. I’m in that crowd and use a VPN on my devices. I use a Synology router that makes it easy to install a VPN on it, but I decided to go with device level VPN.
Last week, for the first time ever, a web site told me to disable my VPN if I wanted to browse their site. I can’t remember what site it was.
If a VPN is “free” that means you’re the product.
Does the VPN protect from your household data being sold by your utility co? That 5G and mesh grid is collecting EVERYTHING it can.
That’s happened a lot recently…before my VPN fell overboard into that lake with everyone’s guns.
From the fridge, dishwasher, AC?
I use it to watch Polish TV series, I also used it to watch “The Ashes” Cricket tournament between Australia and England.
My online bank used to be inaccessible if I was using a NordVPN server outside the US, but lately that’s not been an issue. I’m surprised the website was able to tell you were using a VPN. My guess is that some websites may know of some of the most commonly used VPN server IPs and be able to block them. Does anyone more knowledgeable know how a website can block a VPN and if there are steps around that?
How easy is it to detect if a VPN is being used?
Gotta love that site name! I must say "Bleeping [computer][phone][tablet][web site]" ten times a day
Using a VPN will definitely impact your Internet user experience - and how much info about you the VPN companies are required to funnel straight to the Feds is still unclear.
“I’m surprised the website was able to tell you were using a VPN.”
Because of the VPN protocols. Something else folks don’t know. They can see and collect your device ID also. Device identification is becoming a very common “security feature” as they label it. It is not, it is a spy tool.
Yahoo News and YouTube have been telling me to disable VPN
I’ll just not visit their site
Internet is becoming complicated and I’m losing interest in it
I’m no longer compelled to search all day long looking for the end of the internet
No problems with YouTube for me. I use ExpressVPN.
The ads on so many web sites are so overwhelming that you cannot read the content. The Safari “Reader” view usually does the trick for me and I get clean, ad-free pages. If that fails, then the Brave browser usually works.
“”””Yahoo News and YouTube have been telling me to disable VPN I’ll just not visit their site
Internet is becoming complicated and I’m losing interest in it I’m no longer compelled to search all day long looking for the end of the internet””””
Did I say shallow? Search is close to becoming useless since the deeper sources and materials seem to have been retired into a distant vault while the shallow PC/woke versions are front and center and articles have great titles with no real content, everything is written like articles in women’s magazines and the women’s section of the old newspapers, even the nationwide subject matter today is very female.
It is probably more fun than ever for those wanting a quick connection to bloggers and podcasts that tell them exactly what they want to hear, about literally everything though.
Hilarious
I tried going to their website on my VPN and “1007” blocked me
No problem
I dropped their site into “https://12ft.io“
Full Access
It’s the combination of Firefox, ghostery and Express VPN
There are ways to anonymous surf and bypass
Interesting and good info. Thanks for posting it.
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