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Old December 20th 17, 05:25 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
freebish
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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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Old December 20th 17, 09:59 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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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Old December 20th 17, 06:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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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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