Do you guys use any VPN? Is there a need for that?

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I have been using VPN for long. However since I am in India, I was wondering if it even makes sense to have one. I don’t download lots of torrents or anything like that. But even that isn’t an issue as far as I know.

Any advantages of using VPN?

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If you want to stream foreign content you need one.

Lots of stuff is country blocked.

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Any advantages of using VPN?

Porn.

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Would just leave this for you - Indian government can spy on Indian internet users in real time | Proton VPN

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I just use the standard one that comes with Opera. Work reasonably ok.

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Use the ones that doesn’t log user data if you actually plan on using one because this.

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No advantage. If you are worried about your business secret etc go for encrypted mails.

Otherwise advantages are their for negative things only. Porn, torrent, getting content which is blocked for your region, etc.

Only good if you want to complain about any big issue against govt or powerful people, and you are afraid of your identity getting revealed, then go tor

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I mean if you really don’t care about your data privacy and all, you can install touch VPN extension in chrome web. It allows a few select countries but it’s not a hassle like other full fledged apps.

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You mean Netflix? I am not that interested. But on and off I might download some TV series if its that good. But unlikely.

Lots of stuff is country blocked.

I know some sites are blocked. But what else? content wise

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Not interested in porn. But you can definitely watch without VPN

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That’s the reality everywhere.

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I used Nord and few others. But now I am thinking its not needed. Even if I download some torrents I don’t think anyone gonna send me notice on that.

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I mean if you really don’t care about your data privacy and all

Which VPN do u use? I don’t mind buying one at some point. I used to use it for torrents and stuff earlier (outside india) but here I don’t see any one sending me notices for torrents or anything like that.

For absolute privacy use TOR and that OS. Don’t remember the name

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Without a VPN the number of choices is lower.

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As if long time VPN users, are not aware of it already, VPNs are just a better form of ISP than the actually ISPs, something that isn’t associated with an authority that might have jurisdictions over users, unlike the ISPs. The way to go is using no-log VPNs.

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Genuinely why? VPN should increase the time. One, because of the long route. Second extra tunnel processing. So how.

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rn I’m using the one I mentioned. mostly for porn and It does the job so yeah.

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You can do that with a free VPN like Cloudflare 1.1.1.1/Wrap. There are no ads but you can’t manually change the location.

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Non Log VPNs are rather expensive. People should be more concerned with the amount of info Google has about them. So using DuckDuckgo and protonmail should be encouraged. No Govt is going to gather data like Google. Google here is the real evil.

Which VPN do u use BTW?

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Thanks. But porn would be last reason i would use VPN for.