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I'm losing energy for my VPN by the day (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by oneser@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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I turned it off for 3 days and the difference was very noticeable.

No spending 2-3 minutes switching between servers to make a website work, no captchas before reading, no false "connection timed out" or "server blocked" notices.

Is everyone having the same experience, or am I doing something wrong?

*Oh but to add, any ads which slipped through unlock ended up being obviously better targeted, which I was repulsed by :)

*Edit: it looks like turning off Firefox's own DNS resolver managed to subside many of the captcha request, including for apps which are just browser overlays. Thanks @hansolo@lemmy.today :)

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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As hosts continue to shift the burden of exploit protection onto the visitor, the automatic blocking of VPN exit nodes has exploded and for that reason, VPNs are increasingly often unwelcome. Each person will have to choose at which point an increase in their privacy is less valuable to them than what they get in a visit to a site that attempts to erode that.

There are a couple sites that I turn my VPN off for(like my bank) but for every other, when I see the "You've been blocked" error page, I just close the tab and move on.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just close the tab and move on.

This, every time. Unless I need it, it's probably just a time waster, anyway. If I'm so unwelcome that I can't use a VPN, then they don't really need my web traffic that badly.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

A golden rule online for me is just remembering that value vs value ratio. If it exists but is low value for the user, then it exists as value for the producer. So if I have to drop my value on the negotiation table, then I know what I'll get in return will be of low value as well. At least most of the time. It's not worth gambling it for a one-off or FOMO, that's for sure.