I love listening to music.
No GPT stuff please.
Nowadays they circumvent the false advertising by saying you can watch geolocked content, without specifically talking about Netflix. People then draw their own conclusion, but the advertiser have some plausible deniability about the fact that it could give access to “some” geolocked content, just not that one.
Such ads are also blatantly asking you to go defraud Netflix.
If they openly advertised “our product is great at helping you lie to your investors” I think they would be taken down by the government for aiding and abetting fraud. One of these days I think Netflix and the like will sue the big VPNs.
Use windscribe, hasn’t failed me in years and cheap
If your VPN connection was set up to cover all your internet traffic (most corporate VPN use something called Split Tunnelling, where only traffic going to a corporate server goes through the VPN) then every single piece of that “ubuntu iso” that you are torrenting, would go through the VPN.
Using the mail analogy, you send a sealed envelope to Nord, that is then forwarded to one of the Torrent peers. The message says “Please give me part 1 of 30,000 for the Ubuntu ISO”. The peer then copies page 1 of the file, and puts it into an envelope back to Nord, who then uses a secure envelop to send to you. Your computer does this another 29,999 times for the rest of the “Ubuntu ISO”.
You will also notice that there is an extra step to requesting each of the 30,000 pieces of the torrent. This means that your download speeds will be affected. Some VPN providers offer Torrent connections, that have less of a slow down, but there’s still going to be some slow down.
a proxy would be sending the letter to Nord in one of those clear envelopes so if the mail man looked, they could see the inside letter to Pirater Bay
in COPs example, the envelopes are assumed to be secure and opaque analaglus to encryted packets
Yes they do. That’s why you need to thrust your VPN provider.
Edit: obvious typo but leaving it for the jokes below lol
Your IP address, yes. And based on the path that packages take, roughly where you’re physically located (down to your neighbourhood, typically, not your home address). But without a VPN, so does every single website you connect to.
It has to know your address to communicate with you.
One of the big advantages is that if a production company in the US wants to chase down torrenters in the US, they can just join the torrent group and find other users IP addresses and then work with American ISPs to find the actual users.
If instead they connect to IP addresses owned by a VPN company that’s based out of another country, they have to go through the legal system in that country to get permission to get the IP addresses and have them translated into real IP addresses. Many VPNs don’t keep this historical information, so they just say there’s nothing they can do to comply with the order and call it a day.
Many claims they don’t, and some may be telling the truth. But just to be on the safe side, one should always assume they’re lying.
I have relative trust in Mullvad, very little in Nord or Express.
Some, for others they use the fact they don’t keep logs as a selling point.
But if the government what’s to know my torrenting history, they gotta ask Nord the vpn then?
VPN is just being spied on by a different party.
Yep, you can torrrent with a VPN. Using PBay is my main use for NordVPN. If I dont use the VPN I get notices from my internet provider. With VPN - Smooth Sailing. I download all sorts of things from PBay so I always use a fire up the VPN before accessing the page since its prob on a red-list and even if you’re downloading legit apps they prob flag the website.
And if they’re not thrustworthy, they just might thrust you instead.
I thrust my vpn provider very hard
Even if they don’t maintain logs, they can be compelled by court to monitor active usage and provide real time data including a gag order.
Meh, different threat vectors. Your ISP is gonna try to fuck you for oceanic adventures. The VPN provider has express incentive not to, and they still obviously don’t see inside TLS packets.