[awalton]

"Verizon, you're my enemy, I'm going to continue paying you every month while I work around your stupidity with my VPN..."

That's just how fucked up this situation is.

[mobiplayer]

This is clearly a "dame pan y dime tonto" situation (“Dame pan y dime tonto” literally translates to “give me bread and call me fool”. The idiomatic meaning is “I don’t care what people say as long as I get what I want”.)