• MerchantsOfMisery
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    3 years ago

    a) I torrent a LOT.

    b) I play video games sometimes, one in particular that unfortunately has a lot of script kiddies who enjoy posting peoples’ IP address/city/etc.

    For a) and b), a VPN is very good to have. Torrenting should be more popular and by normalizing the use of VPNs, it cuts down one barrier to piracy that usually is a barrier when a person doesn’t already use a VPN. Video games without dedicated servers are sadly getting more common, so a VPN is also useful for that.

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      3 years ago

      these use cases are acknowledged in the article, the argument the author makes is about other use cases which are arguably more common than yours.

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        3 years ago

        I know, and my issue is that the author’s clickbaity title is just plain silly given the fact that he pretty much backpedals deep into the article. It’s just needlessly misleading.