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Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN"
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Yeah, sure, semantics: when laydudes think about "vpns", they expect exactly a set of features provided by a proxy, so it's pretty much a marketing term nowadays. Nobody really cares whether the packets between their PC and the endpoint are wrapped in wireguard or socks5, unless some protocol happens to be blocked.