2026-07-22 14:37 UTC
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @protonprivacy@mastodon.social I evaluate these kinds of things by looking at who has a healthier business model. For ISPs, they have a bigger incentive to serve the interests of advertisers and anyone who wants access to your data, because if you're like me, you don't have many options for ISPs, they have a mono/duopoly. A paid VPN however is highly incentivized to serve their customers, because if they don't, it's very easy to drop them in favor of a competitor.
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-07-22 14:42
@blipcast@mastodon.social @protonprivacy@mastodon.social Plenty of ISPs here. They have zero incentive to serve advertisers anywhere in the EU as it would be illegal. Maybe the USA is different. There is no use case for a paid VPN other than evading geolocation limits. That's why most people have them; not privacy. I've been running a VPN server here off & on for 20+ years and used ones to connect to an office.