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0 pointsz0ccc3y ago0 comments

There are many legitimate use cases of VPN's. Also there are many VPN companies that don't do false advertising such as Windscribe, mullvad or iVPN.

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iLoveOncall3y ago

> There are many legitimate use cases of VPN's

Yes of course, but that probably represents less than 10% of the customers (I'm being extremely generous on purpose, it's probably 0.1%) of your usual NordVPN and co.

> don't do false advertising such as Windscribe

"Stop tracking and browse privately" and "block annoying advertisers from stalking you online" proves you wrong. VPNs don't stop trackers.

> don't do false advertising such as Mullvad

"Evade hackers and trackers". Sure.

> don't do false advertising such as iVPN

Hey looks good actually, they indeed don't claim to block trackers or anything else, just change your IP / geolocation.

z0cccOP3y ago

> Yes of course, but that probably represents less than 10% of the customers.

Lol how did you come up with 10%? Did you just make it up?

> VPNs don't stop trackers.

Windscribe (and other VPN's) can block trackers. https://blog.windscribe.com/how-r-o-b-e-r-t-works-76d6274460...

sebzim45003y ago

A huge portion of VPN users do it to get around geo-blocking, which has not been falsely advertised.

TedDoesntTalk3y ago

> Hey looks good actually, they indeed don't claim to block trackers or anything else, just change your IP / geolocation

Add FoxyProxy to that list of no false advertising, please

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