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by V1ndaar 1511 days ago
For me one big use case: avoiding stupid geoblocks on motorsport streams. Often streams are available in countries where the licence has not been sold on Youtube or the websites of the sport itself (sometimes for free, sometimes as a subscription).

For example Formula 1 has F1TV that you can only sign up for in some countries (where they didn't sell out to Sky essentially).

Like, I don't even mind paying for a service if it's good and actually available!

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Sent a link (yt, less than a couple of minutes long) to two friends (in different, and not my, countries). Both blocked. One friend changed location via vpn and watched the video. The other, no vpn, didn't see the video AND said they wouldn't ever use a vpn as they have 'nothing to hide'.