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by 5e92cb50239222b 1465 days ago
You forgot the most important use case, unless you're talking about Europeans and USians only. I use a VPN simply because half the internet doesn't work without it (some guy in a suit decided what you can and cannot read, and there's nothing you can do about it).

Free tiers provided by various "cloud" services work fine for this one (Oracle is the most generous among them).
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ezfe 1465 days ago
"If you want to simulate your location, you'll need a VPN with servers in those locations."

While I did omit that justification, it is still just simulating location.

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pastacacioepepe 1465 days ago
> unless you're talking about Europeans and USians only

Nah. As Europeans we're getting more and more censorship. Just think that most Russian news outlets have been blocked, youtube channels and so on. Plus until recently I couldn't read a good chunk of US news due to them refusing to adapt to GDPR.

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