• w3dd1e@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      I use it to get around website article limits when they try to force me to sign up.

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        11 months ago

        Websites with actual web devs block and track usage with ip instead of cookies/cache, nothing a vpn can’t stop tho. More reliable to is to the way back machine on archive.org. Can also use a browsers reader mode to get around it too sometimes.

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      11 months ago

      As someone else put it, it’s for making sure your wife doesn’t get suspicious of the weird ads you’re getting, and when she checks the browser history it’s clean.

      Meanwhile Google, your ISP, and the NSA all know you’re looking at freaky old lady bondage porn.