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by jdworrells 1616 days ago
Something to hide? How about something to protect. I'm overseas in a country that has a strong Chinese presence and a monopolistic semi-untrustworthy goverment owned ISP. I have a VPN profile installed on my wifi router so all my traffic is encrypted from my wifi WAN port all the way back to my home country and a trusted endpoint. If the VPN goes down, my router blocks all traffic until it's back up. Not all VPN users are dark web operators selling raw fentanyl or viewing Netflix from the "wrong" geographical area.