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0 pointsweavejester12y ago0 comments

Claiming that VPNs have more people signing up with stolen credit cards than their own credit cards rather unlikely to me. The penalty fees on the resulting chargeback would make it difficult to make a profit, particularly on a service that competes on price in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

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Ensorceled12y ago

Ah, now I see our problem.

As I see it there are three main customer groups for VPNs; people using it to circumvent copyright protections (either location based or outright theft), tech savvy people who want privacy, and bad guys.

The original said more bad guys than tech savvy people, I assumed that excluded copyright circumventors (the largest group) and you assumed they were included.

weavejesterOP12y ago

You mean that you assumed "tech savvy people" excluded copyright circumventors, while I assumed it did?

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