(Again, domain-level stuff - they see you're on Reddit, they don't see this post in particular.) Instead, your VPN provider can track that. I guess there is one other thing: It prevents your ISP from tracking which sites you go to. And pretty much the only place anyone's going to bother tracking that is, again, torrenting. here is a list of all the private data that VPN providers protect: Of the dozens of things they look at - cookies, plugin configuration, screen resolution, WebGL quirks (likely caused by GPU hardware), number of cores, browser version, OS version, etc etc. Check out how many points of data they can collect about you. Making piracy (like BitTorrent) harder to track.īut if you got a VPN out of some vague desire for privacy, to prevent websites from tracking you, nope. at least until China cracks down on these, but it works for now. Getting around an ISP-level (or country-level) firewall, such as accessing the rest of the Internet from inside China. Getting access to another country's streaming catalog, assuming the streaming service hasn't banned your VPN yet. but how many of those do you use anymore? Like, Reddit just casually uses SSL now, so even your ISP can only see that you are a Redditor, they won't even know you're on r/linux. Using insecure stuff from public wifi, like a website that uses HTTP instead of HTTPS. But this is just other stuff you can do with VPN tech, it's not what Nord/Proton do. If you run certain old LAN games, you could run a VPN to connect a bunch of friends over the Internet into a virtual LAN to play them. To be fair, VPNs are genuinely useful for a lot of things, I just don't think even most r/linux users need the commercial ones:Ĭonnecting to another network (not just the Internet) - like, if you work from home, there's a good chance your employer makes you connect to a work VPN to get onto the work network. Super efficient, while still being very personable.In fact, I'd suggest that most people probably do not need a VPN in the first place, and most of the advertising telling you that you do is so dishonest it's actually gotten these companies fined. With TextExpander, I can open a template, type in a few 'fill in the blank' fields to customize it, and then insert the customized version. I have a few standard email responses I send. "css.animation" outputs the animation keyframes. For example, "html.form" outputs the general form markup with all the common form fields. I'm a WordPress developer, so I'm constantly writing code. I've created a handful of snippets that output common code I use. I type the snippet, hit the down arrow to go through the page options, then hit ENTER, and it automatically enters the URL in the browser, and navigates there. There are a few WordPress admin pages I visit regularly, to check reports, sales, customers, write blog posts, etc. For example, "//esc" is for my website,. Then I give myself a few options in a dropdown of which page I want to visit. I use a prefix of "//" followed by a three-letter abbreviation for a website. This quickly inserts the emoji without me needing to look it up online on a copy/paste site. I use a prefix of "::", followed by the name of the emoji.
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