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Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

There are very little, if any, benefits to using a VPN service to browse the public internet.

I've run into issues multiple times where a site doesn't load until I turn on my VPN with an endpoint in the EU