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by EspressoGPT 1038 days ago
It's especially fascinating how such a highly technical, rather nerd-ish concept is being marketed so widely. They did a great job there.
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MattGaiser 1038 days ago
It has lots of practical uses such as evading Netflix geo-restrictions or getting around local network restrictions, even without considering privacy.
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mnd999 1038 days ago
> Because a VPN in this sense is just a glorified proxy.
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coldtea 1038 days ago
What else would a proper VPN be besides a particular way to have a internet-wide proxy (as opposed to e.g. just a web proxy)?
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mnd999 1037 days ago
Traditionally it’s a mechanism to connect to a private network via a public one, for example to access a corporate network from home.

But a proxy doesn’t have to be a web proxy. Socks proxies were pretty common at one time.

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