Indeed public infrastructure can be shared. The Cable and fiber currently deployed is NOT public infrastructure. Definitely should be but it isn't. As such, either a competitor has to put up their own poles over the entire area or run buried lines.
Both things can be seriously stopped up by the existing provider.
We absolutely should have the gov't in the ISP business; it's a utility like anything else.
The corporations are the ones stopping things. Having politicians simply write laws in exchange for campaign donations root of the problem.
Yes you're moving the attack point, but it's basically the same as your router firewall doing the heavy lifting while behind the firewall you can run without one in relative safety if you choose.
I almost think it needs to be a router function...which means a standard that needs to be fleshed out and followed.
US based I believe. I use PIA and am pretty happy with it. Occasionally their servers get blocked by Waze routing servers (and other such vanilla sites) but likely that's normal with any decent volume VPN.
Speeds are more than adequate for browsing, torrenting or whatever you want to do.
If you used a VPN from somewhere without a vigorous legal system, you can't really trust what your VPN provider is doing with your data.
Would love to donate to the defense fund but your vendor uses Stripe for CC processing. They're terrible and routinely block transactions for no valid reason.
Re: Yet another story reinforcing my whole-house VPN
I use PIA and while it works absolutely fabulous for my needs, it seemingly wouldn't work for full time usage as too many times their IPs get blocked by various mainstream sites, making those sites less than fully functional.
The non-techies in house can't deal with that unfortunately.
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It's different thing that what DL has done which is using the power the internet and the 'free' to drive fans to their shows.
Both are significant.
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As it is now, the Five Eyes simply collect each others domestic comms and give them to each other.
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Re: YNOT share infrastructure
Both things can be seriously stopped up by the existing provider.
We absolutely should have the gov't in the ISP business; it's a utility like anything else.
The corporations are the ones stopping things. Having politicians simply write laws in exchange for campaign donations root of the problem.
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I almost think it needs to be a router function...which means a standard that needs to be fleshed out and followed.
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Speeds are more than adequate for browsing, torrenting or whatever you want to do.
If you used a VPN from somewhere without a vigorous legal system, you can't really trust what your VPN provider is doing with your data.
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aren't useful *right now*
FTFY
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CANT DONATE?????
Card is fine, data is fine. Stripe simply declines it. CC provider never even sees the transaction. 2 different cards.
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I support this
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Re: Yet another story reinforcing my whole-house VPN
The non-techies in house can't deal with that unfortunately.
Any suggestions for when the VPN IP gets blocked?
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You get what you pay for
The data they collect is entirely separate from the services they provide to us.
Unless this is proposing we pay Facebook/Google for the services they provide it doesn't fit the current reality
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More correctly the CDC is banned on spending any money on such gun violence research.
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Why would they care about quality?
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Why not just in 'restricted zones'?
If someone lives in flyover country, hundreds of miles from an airport, why are they restricting what routers can be used?
also, see drones and why aren't the restrictions for airport areas applied to the whole country
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