presta
Legendary Member
When I got my smart phone I read that in Smartphones for Dummies, so I gave it a try. It was more nuisance than it was worth.
VPN Use
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Has that changed to subscription recently?
I have surfshark, too, for general use but have to switch DDG off for it to fire up.
infinityleague
Active Member
- Location
- London
Surf Shark user for 5+ years now without any issues. Use DDG with surfshark for extra safety.
1) primarily for EYE PEE TV.
2) unlimited devices can be logged in with one account (was 10 devices before).
3) check their Black Friday deals. Comes as cheap as £1.50 or £2 per month without Black Friday deals.
4) uses RAM servers.
5) has their own search, antivirus, alternate ID option & an alert system that notifies if any of your info is leaked online.
Check it out of interested. Best money I spent on any service after my eye pee tv (another 5+ years with no issues).
1) primarily for EYE PEE TV.
2) unlimited devices can be logged in with one account (was 10 devices before).
3) check their Black Friday deals. Comes as cheap as £1.50 or £2 per month without Black Friday deals.
4) uses RAM servers.
5) has their own search, antivirus, alternate ID option & an alert system that notifies if any of your info is leaked online.
Check it out of interested. Best money I spent on any service after my eye pee tv (another 5+ years with no issues).
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glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Sounds good, do you have a link?
rualexander
Legendary Member
Tried Nord VPN, Surfshark, and Cyber Ghost on their free trials before settling for Cyber Ghost.
Had problems with both Nord and Surfshark, ranging from websites not loading, slow connections, etc.
No problems with Cyber Ghost, been using it for around eight months now.
Had problems with both Nord and Surfshark, ranging from websites not loading, slow connections, etc.
No problems with Cyber Ghost, been using it for around eight months now.
I thought the only people who use a VPN are people who use the internet for porn.
- Location
- Glasgow
I use it for watching foreign TV channels that refuse access to UK IPs.
Regular.Cyclist
Über Member
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- South West Scotland 🏴
If you are not looking to shift your location then you can run your own VPN using a Raspberry Pi at home. Tutorials are easy to find online.
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PaulSB
Squire
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- Chorley, Lancashire
I'm unsure why you would think that?
While I'm far from obsessive about security I like to be as careful as one practically can be in the modern world. I happily go about daily life with a device in my pocket that provides potential access to a huge amount of personal data. I've long been aware that using public wifi exposes me to possible risks. Until very recently I thought a VPN was a complicated process for people with far more knowledge and technical ability than me.
Why wouldn't I use the opportunities it provides to protect myself when I'm having a coffee, checking email, WhatsApp, CC, Facebook etc? The clip below is really about Facebook likes but broadly similar principles apply.
View: https://youtu.be/yrjT8m0hcKU?si=QQBBo8gvXvl1o4jk
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
How did you manage to order the book if you couldn't already operate a smartphone?
Psamathe
Über Member
eg I upload photos to my personal website using FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Couple of years ago cycle touring in France I found that some French campsites Wi-Fi block anything non web/mail browsing. So use VPN (on port 443) and I could happily upload day's photos to website and for cloud backup. No porn involved.
Loads of important uses for VPNs - hence importance for OP to decide why they want a VPN. You won't get a viable solution if you don't know what problem you are trying to solve.
Alex321
Guru
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- South Wales
Not at all. Almost anybody who works from home on a company computer will be using a VPN to access their company network.
Anybody who is nervous about their personal information is likely to use one, though I'm not convinced they give as much protection there as people might think, given that the majority will be using ISPs with dynamic addressing, so their "regular" IP address will be showing as miles away from where they actually live.
You also get people wanting to stream geo-locked content (witness various people on here trying to watch cycling via Australian or European streams after TNT made it prohibitively expensive).
Usage of VPNs for porn access has certainly increased massively since the new laws came into force in July, but that is by no means the only use of them (if it was, then banning VPN use would have been included in that legislation).
Alex321
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I get the point, and it's defo worth keeping security in mind. Certainly I'd find it a little, um, disconcerting for a barista bod to come out with such details about me BUT (you knew there was one coming!) it's pretty cursory stuff imho; dob, college, mum's name, etc.
People are willingly making this info available on their Fb, LinkedIn pages etc, so really the issue demonstrated in the clip is the speed and ease with which such stuff can be gleaned, not that it can be. And a VPN wouldn't have made a difference here, the info obtained was via a single Fb 'like' (presumably) As with many things, the tech isn't the core problem but it certainly does facilitate it.
Your doctor's secretary, your local library assistant, etc; they'll equally have access to identitying details about you. The issue comes if/when they decide to do something fraudulent with that access.
Me, I'm more concerned that people are so easily bought. A free coffee for an Fb like? Should you not have the coffee first before giving your seal of approval! ?
I am, as ever, being deliberately flippant BTW. Flippant with a point. Of course, security is an issue, as it ever has been. With increased benefit comes increased risk maybe??
My interest in VPN is purely to access geolocked TV. But as the beeb pretty successfully plays 'whack-a-mole' with VPN servers, it's not a game I'm going to play.
