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43% of Americans use VPNs – should you?
MSN ^ | March 6, 2025 | George Phillips

Posted on 03/20/2025 7:48:42 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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To: Myrddin

I did a year subscription of Duolingo to learn Czech. It kept repeating the most ridiculous phrases about sheep, donkeys and goats. One phrase was “We are looking for a big donkey and a large machine.” In what fricking situation would I ever need to know that sentence? I just wanted to learn how to get to the metro station or order at a restaurant and the damn thing kept talking about animals that I never even saw when I was last there.


41 posted on 03/21/2025 2:06:50 AM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: DoodleBob

YES! You absolutely should. It protects your privacy. It protects you from a lot of malware and adware that would otherwise be loaded onto your computer. It shields you from detection when you download torrents.


42 posted on 03/21/2025 3:04:47 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: goodnesswins

Virtual Private Network.


43 posted on 03/21/2025 3:05:43 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: for-q-clinton

So the porn watchers also have to have a vpn? Seems like they might be in cahoots with the vpn companies to allow them to watch the stuff.


44 posted on 03/21/2025 3:40:08 AM PDT by TermLimits4All ("If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.")
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To: DoodleBob

VPNs are like cryptocurrency. Sure, you can use it to hide movement between yourself and someone else from ALMOST everyone .....everyone, that is, except the venue’s owner. Of course, the feds would know this fact, and would be constantly searching the venue for shady transactions. So using cryptocurrency or a VPN would provide the feds with a quick shakeout of the cacophony legitimate transactions to single out a user’s illegitimate transactions.


45 posted on 03/21/2025 3:44:32 AM PDT by nagant
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To: for-q-clinton

Phew... I’m covered then.


46 posted on 03/21/2025 4:18:48 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: McGruff

If you have W11 you probably have copilot, do a search for it.


47 posted on 03/21/2025 4:42:22 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: dagunk

No idea what your post is trying to say.
Guy at lunch? China-made card? Card calling China? China calling guy at lunch? Chinese flood at lunch tasting like cardboard? Possibilities are endless…


48 posted on 03/21/2025 5:24:20 AM PDT by exinnj
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m finding more and more websites that block you if using a VPN. Many times you get an error or blank page. Turn off VPN and refresh page and the connection goes right through.

With youtube, I get Sign in to prove you’re not a bot. Turn off VPN and I don’t get that.

The only thing it’s useful for to me is to lessen the tracking and targeted ads. I don’t know if I’ll bother renewing. Might just use Brave more and use a free VPN.


49 posted on 03/21/2025 5:55:26 AM PDT by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: for-q-clinton

Have you looked into SA?


50 posted on 03/21/2025 6:01:49 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: ponygirl
Duolingo certainly does construct some absurd sentences. Absurd, but grammatically correct. The Welsh course includes a character named Owen who likes parsnips. It's a recurring meme. I passed my proficiency at UCSD in German by taking the SAT II in German and successfully passing an oral proficiency that started with reading an article in Der Stern and discussing it in German before shifting to free form conversation. I use Duolingo in German to reinforce and expand on that old skill set. The Welsh Duolingo was a follow-on to years of Teach Yourself Welsh and other materials. Welsh lacks the voice recognition found in the better supported languages (German, French, Spanish, Italian). The voice synthesis in Scot's Gaelic is an atrocious string of syllables spoken by male/female, young/old speakers. In spite of that, it does help recognize correct spoken Gaelic. If Mandarin is your interest, the Hello, Chinese app is far better than Duo.
51 posted on 03/21/2025 7:38:44 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: goodnesswins

Thanks, so how does it work and how do you access it?


52 posted on 03/21/2025 8:06:35 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: T.B. Yoits
I’m still running Windows 10 and the way Microsoft continually tries to install Windows 11...

The trick is to have an older PC. When Win10 wouldn't quit asking I finally said "Sure, do it".
Win comes back and say my hardware is too old. So I said "Then STF up about it".

53 posted on 03/21/2025 8:22:00 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: SkyDancer

Search VPN...you will find many...we use “Express”


54 posted on 03/21/2025 8:27:59 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Democrats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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To: goodnesswins

K, thanks.


55 posted on 03/21/2025 8:54:25 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: DoodleBob

Yes. Mind you I don’t. But everybody should. The internet is a wild place, and you just don’t know who is where. An extra layer of anonymity is good.


56 posted on 03/21/2025 8:56:08 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

My computer doesn’t have enough space so I get error messages, but that doesn’t stop the Microsoft update from trying again, again, and again.


57 posted on 03/21/2025 9:10:23 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: exinnj

Hoo Boy - How much coffee have you had??

Anyway, lessee here...

“Guy at lunch?” - Yup.

“China-made card?” - Yup, China-made Cisco ethernet card.

“Card calling China?” - Yup. Ain’t happening, closed network. No connection to the outside world. Still misbehaving though....

“China calling guy at lunch?” - How’d they know he was at lunch?? We were 90 miles from nowhere.

“Chinese flood (food?) at lunch tasting like cardboard?” - Hey - Whoa there. We had a nice dining facility with excellent cooks and staff. “We all beat anorexia” *grin*
Seriously - They fed us good. Too good for some.

You Take Care.


58 posted on 03/21/2025 10:38:36 AM PDT by dagunk (-- Unknown)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There’s a reason that in the 1990s the NSA started building their own computers.


59 posted on 03/21/2025 10:51:57 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
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