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Need to find a free VPN.
A few GB/month is enough. Not for browser but for apps running on Win XP thru Win 10 Recommendations please. Also, I read that Firefox may need its own VPN. Is that true if the Windows VPN is installed and working ? |
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:25:20 -0800, freebish
wrote: Need to find a free VPN. A few GB/month is enough. Not for browser but for apps running on Win XP thru Win 10 Recommendations please. Also, I read that Firefox may need its own VPN. Is that true if the Windows VPN is installed and working ? For starters, what is a VPN? |
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:25:20 -0800, freebish wrote: Need to find a free VPN. A few GB/month is enough. Not for browser but for apps running on Win XP thru Win 10 Recommendations please. Also, I read that Firefox may need its own VPN. Is that true if the Windows VPN is installed and working ? For starters, what is a VPN? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network "They are used to securely connect geographically separated offices of an organization... to circumvent geo-restrictions" A Canadian could VPN to a network facility in the USA, to make it appear they're a US citizen and entitled to media content only "licensed" for US users. Canadians try to do that to get US Netflix. The Canadians are still paying for Netflix, and use a US billing address to complete the facade. All this is doing, is avoiding a licensing geo-fence around the content. When you make a VPN, you're explicitly trusting the operator of the service, to not snoop on what you're doing. A user might employ additional encryption, to prevent recovery of passwords. ******* There are as many schemes, as there are days of the week. In this one, one "layer" of users, think they're using a free service. A second payware layer, makes their networking facilities of the free users, available for payware users. A two-tiered kind of VPN. The free users think they're getting a good deal, by circumventing geo-fencing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hola_%28VPN%29 ******* There are also proxy servers. Which "put some distance" between you and the end system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server You could spend *weeks* mining Wikipedia for this stuff. Paul |
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