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IVPN created an awesome website called doineedavpn.com where they honestly and objectively answer that question. It’s one of the reasons why I like IVPN as a VPN provider, they are honest and don’t hide anything from their customers. Also their apps are open source and they support anonymous signup.

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Another good use for VPN is to counter dynamic pricing. My wife visited a website some time ago to request the price for a ticket. When she visited the website a second time the price had increased considerably. However when visiting the price with VPN it was the original price again. It saved her a lot of money.

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You can also get around this by using a non-airline owned travel metasearch engine like Kayak.

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Thanks for the tip.

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Clearly whoever wrote this has not tried torrenting popular content 🤨

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Just use any old proxy either paid for in cash in the mail, or in a country that absolutely won’t cooperate with yours legally when you need it.

Your VPN will absolutely fold under the slightest legal pressure.

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Some of them don’t even log the data required to cooperate with requests. Mullvad is one.

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IVPN is another

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how do they prove that they both don’t and can’t?

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I know exactly how litigious Funimation is. I absolutely need a VPN. :D

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