People use it to get around geographic restrictions. People do use them for security and data privacy, but those are generally on people’s work computers. In my experience…
I use one for security reasons and to block location tracking. Although with Starlink, your location already shows up as where the nearest Starllink downlink location is (I assume).
On bare Starlink, I show up as being in Chicago. On my VPN, the closest site is in Virginia although I sometimes switch it up just for fun. I do find that if I pick another country, some sites won't render.
I'm also running a corporate VPN for my employer over the top of my home VPN. Kind of just wanting to see if they notice when I show up as being somewhere else. Nobody's ever complained, but I know the Security guys well and we also have a lot of foreign-based contractors, so it's probably not worth their time to investigate.
dont people in the US use VPN's ? country location is an identifier, but what will using a VPN identify ? a anon ?
People use it to get around geographic restrictions. People do use them for security and data privacy, but those are generally on people’s work computers. In my experience…
I use a VPN at home because I hate being tracked by my ISP
thanks for the info. I never use one, so not sure of other reasons to use one other than to remain anonymous.
I use one for security reasons and to block location tracking. Although with Starlink, your location already shows up as where the nearest Starllink downlink location is (I assume).
On bare Starlink, I show up as being in Chicago. On my VPN, the closest site is in Virginia although I sometimes switch it up just for fun. I do find that if I pick another country, some sites won't render.
I'm also running a corporate VPN for my employer over the top of my home VPN. Kind of just wanting to see if they notice when I show up as being somewhere else. Nobody's ever complained, but I know the Security guys well and we also have a lot of foreign-based contractors, so it's probably not worth their time to investigate.
(I'm in WV, BTW)
Same-Same with me...I am NOT in the United States BUT still able to post!!!!