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The Shady Business of VPNs (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not affiliated with the author, I just really like their videos.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I like his videos too and I think this is one of the better ones I've seen on this topic. Still, it has been absolutely done to death at this point, to the extent that I find the "don't trust VPNs" videos to be just as annoying as the VPN ads themselves. I wish everyone would just shut the fuck up about VPNs lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I get it. The problem is that the target audience doesn't watch these videos. We all have that one friend who thinks VPNs make you invisible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You'll notice that whenever something has an impact on Five Eyes entities, propaganda and for/against articles will blast every possible social media.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/watch?v=iaJ0hCTCvdY

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Sometimes I think their all honeypots regardless of brand or documentation proving otherwise. Its the easiest way allowing people to auto filter themselves into more likely to be nefarious without overhead and legwork. Analog or bust.