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Mother of Dragons
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Blanca, is VPN allows you to disguise your location when using the internet for various reasons.
It sets your IP...your current online address, to another loacation.
It provides anonymity or an access point to view sites that cannot be viewed in the country you are actually in.
Say you want to view a site that only allows Americans to view it and you are in China, well you use a VPN to set your Chinese IP to an American one.
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David K
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Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  | Blanca, is VPN allows you to disguise your location when using the internet for various reasons.
It sets your IP...your current online address, to another loacation.
It provides anonymity or an access point to view sites that cannot be viewed in the country you are actually in.
Say you want to view a site that only allows Americans to view it and you are in China, well you use a VPN to set your Chinese IP to an American one.
It also protects your location and traceability.
I run a forum and a blog that interacts with a lot of people around the world and you can see where people are posting or reading from, right down to
where their Service is pinging from, so I use a VPN when on them so others cannot trace where I am at.
Does that make sense?
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Sounds like you can teach some of us old folks some things? It is so nice to have fresh blood on this forum! Would you care to share your blog or
website links with us? As you can see, there is a signature feature on Nomad where you can put a couple of links to invite people to see your sites.
Thank you, Khaleesi.
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John Harper
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It all seems rather sinister. Disguising your location? Sounds like something taught in KGB 101.
John
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tbnoble
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I have used Private Internet Access (PIA) for a couple of years now here in Socorro. I teach online for colleges in the States and asked my IT guys on
the campuses what I should use and they all recommended this one. The only downside is one of my banks will not let me access my account while
cloaked. Yeah they can figure it out based on the site traffic for each vpn server, just takes an algorithm to determine. I use it simply because I
don't liked to have any of my internet use tracked easily, it all gets tracked, do the best I can to throw in a monkey wrench.
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wiltonh
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The location we visit has very slow internet so watching something like Netflix has not worked well. I have not tried a VPN in several years but the
last time I did it slowed the data down even more. My choice was to purchase a lifetime copy of PlayOn which now cost about $40. This allows me to
download legal files from Netflix and most any other streaming site. They add my IP address and email address to every movie or TV show so if I
uploaded them, everyone would know where it came from. I have several external drives filled with programs which I plan to watch during the winter.
This solution only works if you spent your summers up North but it is probably a lot cheaper than paying a monthly fee for a VPN.
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John Harper
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What are you afraid of and why? I'm sure the NSA can find out whatever they want no matter what you do. If Facebook and Google don't already know
more about you than you even imagine. I think that horse left the barn a long time ago.
Not trying to be smart ass about it, just interested in why someone would try to hide from tracking, it seems so pervasive already. Seems privacy
died a few years ago.
John
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JZ
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| Quote: Originally posted by John Harper |
What are you afraid of and why? I'm sure the NSA can find out whatever they want no matter what you do. If Facebook and Google don't already know
more about you than you even imagine. I think that horse left the barn a long time ago.
Not trying to be smart ass about it, just interested in why someone would try to hide from tracking, it seems so pervasive already. Seems privacy
died a few years ago.
John
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It avoids someone getting into your computer and then your bank account.
It lets you watch Youtube in China.
It lets you stream college football games in Mexico.
It hides your identity when watching weird porn genres, e.g pegging flicks.
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SFandH
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I'm not sure, but I think all the benefits of a VPN described in this thread can also be achieved using a TOR browser. It provides the highest degree
of anonymity when browsing the Inet and is used to browse the dark web.
It's free.
Streaming video might be a problem.
https://www.torproject.org/
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pauldavidmena
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| Quote: Originally posted by BajaBlanca | All of this is like another language to me. I have a headache just reading it!
Thank goodness for youngsters in this world.
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Youngster? Moi? You're too kind. 
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