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    11 months ago

    VPNs are very effective because they increase the cost of that kind of datasurvillenace of you enough to make it not worth it.

    Not really, because you left out a huge asterisk. They are only effective after you have implemented a bunch of other methods to deal with cookies, tracking scripts, finger printing etc.

    A vpn on it’s own doesn’t do shit if you don’t auto wipe your cookies after every session for example. Which vpn marketing conveniently forgets to tell you