In-reply-to » @prologic idk I tend to think that "reading something on some random person's web site" and "telling some random person where I live to within a mile or two" ought to be distinct things I get to choose independently....

@prologic@twtxt.net I find the top purpose for corporate VPN providers is low-impact legal offenses involving torrenting: It’s not necessarily about the VPN provider not ratting you out, but about being enough of a hassle to uncloak you that by the time the legal process to do so has ramped up, the VPN provider has dumped their logs anyways. Serious crimes, governments are going to act a lot faster, and get the response they need quickly, but for the low level stuff it’s more civil law nonsense a VPN company in the middle will befuddle the process.

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