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

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 2 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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[–] crandall@lemmy.today 21 points 4 days ago

Privacy takes work unfortunately. I don't have too hard of a time. Takes me a few seconds to switch servers if something is blocked, not a few minutes. I take more pleasure in staying private than I do in getting things that much faster.