Why was the thread about the free VPN Riseup removed, while there's a 2 day old thread about Windscribe, a paid VPN still active?
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You are mistaking a "concerted effort" with a general consensus that free VPNs are not a great idea. "If a service is free, you are not the customer, you are the product" is a pretty good rule of thumb. Your downvotes aren't necessarily a conspiracy here.
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“If a service is free, you are not the customer, you are the product”
There it is, he regurgitated it!
No, the real issue is that people don't want to admit when they've been taken for a ride. I see it all the time and don't expect more from consumers at this point.
Anything to avoid admitting you spent money on something you could've gotten for free.
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What a fucking idiot.
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Don't leave moms basement. You can't handle the world as it is.
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I would be interested to know why you are pushing this product across multiple places on Lemmy. Your post, despite disparaging "viral marketers", has a viral marketing tone with statements such as "I feel like I’ve been wasting money on my VPN ever since I found Riseup".
Additionally, while I do believe a free VPN using an autonomous collective, resource pooling approach is a great idea, in practice this VPN has had... not a great history from my point of view. A quick search shows that in 2017 they were forced to comply with US Law Enforcement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riseup, see the Warrant Canary section. VPNs based in the US are known to be at risk, and this is another good example.
When choosing a VPN provider, server location is important, as well as company location. You are repeatedly encouraging people to Torrent from a VPN based in one of the most zealous countries opposing file sharing worldwide, and one that has already worked with Law Enforcement.
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No, the real issue is that people don’t want to admit when they’ve been taken for a ride.
How ironic...
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I generally don’t feel it’s moral to use it just to save money, but that’s me.
Yeah, it sounds similar to "I feel like I’ve been wasting money on groceries ever since I found food banks."
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I disagree with the statement now a days. There are so many paid services that still sell your data. I use almost entirely all FOSS programs which are also monetarily free and none turn me into their product.
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short answer: because nobody flagged that other one. (it is deleted now too.)
re: riseup, is it even possible to use their VPN without an invite code? (i don't think it is?)
in any case, riseup says clearly that their purpose is "to provide digital self-determination for social movements" - it is not intended for torrenting, even if it might work for it.
feel free to PM me if you want to discuss this further; i am deleting this post too. (at the time of deletion it has 8 upvotes and 33 downvotes, btw.)
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How so? I've admitted in my post that I wasted money by paying for a VPN for years.
