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by jsjohnst 2089 days ago
> Out of curiosity, how do you even manage to use more than five devices for private use at once? Even just owning that many is unlikely.

I’m not GP and I certainly don’t take GP’s stance about limiting to 5 devices (I think it makes sense), but claiming it’s unlikely that someone owns more than five devices is silly, especially if someone has a family. My non-tech sister’s family of four has two phones, three iPads, two laptops, etc. As another example, I literally own over an order of magnitude more devices than just five devices for private use (yes, I’m an outlier).
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chmod775 2089 days ago
> but claiming it’s unlikely that someone owns more than five devices is silly

No I specifically said use, not own. You can own more than 5 devices with your mullvad account number, you just can't be connected on all of them at the same time. Also I wasn't expecting people would share their accounts with their family, which is already questionable.

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jsjohnst 2088 days ago
> Also I wasn't expecting people would share their accounts with their family, which is already questionable.

Do families not already share Netflix, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Prime, etc etc? I’m not sure why it would be such a leap for them to share a VPN, especially if the reason they are using the VPN at all is simply to get around GeoIP restrictions (which I’m not condoning, but obviously many do it).

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jsjohnst 2088 days ago
> Even just owning that many is unlikely.

> No I specifically said use, not own.

These two verbatim quotes from you seem to be in conflict with each other.

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chmod775 2087 days ago
My question was about using that many devices. And I'll quote myself here fully:

> Out of curiosity, how do you even manage to use more than five devices for private use at once? Even just owning that many is unlikely.

One sentence is a question, the other is a statement which I consider to be true (and explains how I arrived at that question).

Also it was quite clear from my argument that I was talking about people singular, and you responded pretending I was saying that an entire family owning more than 5 devices is unlikely.

I can't imagine why you'd be arguing like this, I just hope it's not on purpose.

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jsjohnst 2086 days ago
> I can't imagine why you'd be arguing like this, I just hope it's not on purpose.

Seriously? OP never said just me and only me uses all five plus devices. I and others gave you multiple examples of how that could be very possible realistically, and then you shift goal posts and say it’s us being argumentative. I’m done, have a good life!

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