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by uabstraction 3369 days ago
Everyone has different needs. If you are a journalist building up a story against powerful adversaries, then you absolutely find a VPN provider in an impartial jurisdiction. If you are just trying to hide your browsing habits from your nosey ISP, torrent a couple movies, and latency matters at all to you, a local VPN is not a terrible choice.
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Fair point.

I'm not in the US, so the local advantages don't apply, only the three-letter agency illegal snooping disadvantages.

Well, the NSA has intercepts virtually everywhere. They're drowning in data.