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Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
The VPN is useful, if you have to hide your traffic from your ISP, that might block or throttle services like VoIP or torrent, which are lawful, but manhandled by the ISPs anyway.
That is a good point. Even more useful than hiding it from your own ISP might be hiding it from a public WiFi as many of them have very aggressive firewalls. It is not uncommon that I can browse TMO in a cafe but not e.g. send an email.
 

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