Do you use a VPN?

[Darth C3P0²]

i'm not willing to pay for an expensive vpn that has absolutely no dns bleeding

Betternet is free

[Ad Bot]

[hillkill]

Betternet is free

bleeds like forget though. read the privacy policy too.

[Darth C3P0²]

bleeds like forget though.

girls do too and I dont see you complaining
Please don't get mad, it was just a joke from my bad sense of humor

[Pecon]

ProtonVPN also has some free plans if you want to test the waters with a VPN.

[Mr Queeba]

i use this vpn called ipvanish every once in a while

[PhantOS]

In the case of OpenVPN (the most common vpn protocol among most services), this is actually 100% incorrect. The configuration of OpenVPN involves the client downloading a public key for the server you intend to connect to beforehand. This means that when you connect to the server, your client encrypts it's request using the server's public key (which includes the client's public key, so the server can write it's first reply back encrypted as well). In this way, key exchange in theory never happens in the clear between the client and server which makes detecting a connection as being a VPN connection extremely difficult to do automatically. In theory, the VPN provider can host the server's public key in any number of locations so that clients always can get it, even if their ISP or other middleman is blocking their connection to the VPN website.

It's not 100% foolproof, but VPN's absolutely have the tools needed to circumvent censorship of their website or blocking of obvious VPN connections.

oh I never realize this existed. now that I think about it it does seem like something that would exist

[TristanLuigi]

I use PIA due to privacy and tracking concerns, though I don't know if I'll renew my subscription when it expires. Netflix is able to detect PIA, and blocks you until you disable it (which is quite annoying, because American Netflix is garbage).