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• Post #2949947

  VPNs are to protect you against your ISP, that is about it. I guess sailing the high seas also since fingerprinting doesn’t apply as much. Also getting around authoritarian government blocks. It is a small piece of the puzzle.

• Post #467449

  Centralized platforms for multiple uses and a huge tool ecosystem. That is it. It is simply much much much easier to set up and get a consistent experience. Embedded coding has an extremely scattered ecosystem of vendor-run IDE forks which are usually a pretty bad experience. Their commandline documentation is often complete trash so instead of fixing that, they just make a simple plugin for vscode and they have a cross-compatible IDE that already works with all of their customers’ favorite...