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VPN Providers Report Huge Increase In Downloads, Usage Since Privacy Rules Were Repealed (ibtimes.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A number of major VPN providers reported a significant increase in subscriptions, downloads, and traffic from Americans since the U.S. Congress voted to repeal the Broadband Consumer Privacy Rules that would have mandated internet service providers get user permission before collecting information. The International Business Times reports that "several popular VPN providers reported a more than 50 percent increase in downloads." VPN provider ExpressVPN said they "experienced a 105 percent increase in traffic from the U.S. and a 97 percent spike in sales" since the repeal. Additionally, "KeepSolid, the New York-based company behind VPNUnlimited, noted a 32 percent increase in purchases and growth of 49 percent in total downloads," reports IBT. "The company also reports having a considerable amount of increased engagement via social media regarding user privacy." Have you taken any privacy measures since Congress voted to repeal ISP privacy rules? If you use a VPN, which provider do you recommend and why?
The privacy rules WERE NEVER IN EFFECT so this is fucking retarded. Literally nothing has changed about your internet privacy today from a month ago. Or six months ago. Or a year ago. THE RULES THAT WERE REPEALED WERE NEVER ACTIVE. Further, what was really repealed was the FCC having any control over the internet. Yes, you should have privacy. NO THE FCC SHOULD HAVE NO INVOLVEMENT. Not for good or bad. They should have no ability to regulate anything on the internet. Fuck them and fuck them trying to reach over into the internet as a way to justify their continued funding and existence as radio and television over the air dies.
And fuck all these tech-pundit-dipshits who have been misreporting all of this and fucking scaremongering people. You fucking twats.
If both sites are owned by you, it would be smarter to just deploy OpenVPN yourself at one site and connect the other site to it directly. No reason to pay a 3rd party service for that.
Pay special attention to the difference between openvpn.net and openvpn.com. The first one is the free, open source software project. The second is their commercial service for said software. You do not need to subscribe to the second to use the first.
ThatOnePrivacyGuy on /r/privacy manages That One Privacy Site, including a handy VPN section:
https://thatoneprivacysite.net...
Unlike most other VPN reviews, this one encourages community discussion and appears to be impartial.
A VPN service is different than a proxy service.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.