• Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I too am out of the loop but why not use tor? The VPN companies can still trace it back to you if what you did turned out to be illegal.

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      6 hours ago

      Because streaming over tor is 1) painfully slow and 2) a dick move for the whole network that is very important to others.

      VPN don’t give a crap about people pirating, and governments probably don’t as much as people think (I guess that depends heavily on your country), but if you really want to be safe, go for one of the logless vpn, like mullvad or ivpn.

    • basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      That’s why I suggested trusted vpn companies. Proton keeps no logs, so they couldn’t hand it over if even they wanted to. I also suggested VPN as opposed to TOR because TOR can be fiddly*, and complicated because of that to a non-techy person (which is what this person had said they were). The speeds of TOR are also not good for streaming.