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stinerman [Ohio]

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I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression. @stinerman@mastodon.social on Mastodon.

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In my case it’s ESPN+ to watch hockey games. ESPN only checks geolocation when you first connect to the stream. So long as you don’t turn off the stream you can watch the entire game. So I turn the VPN on for about 10 seconds and then turn it off. Works every time… at least last season it did.

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I use the OpenVPN configuration on mine to get around geoblocks. It works fine but I do need to disable IPv6 to force my client (a Roku) to connect over IPv4.

I have found that after about 45 minutes the bandwidth tanks and my stream looks like potato quality. Maybe because I’m on free tier and am streaming HD content? I did find out that the website only checks my IP address on startup so now I only run the VPN long enough to connect.

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I have just recently heard of both after not knowing who either was like 2 months ago so this was just another instance of a long line of “man those people are constantly in the news.”

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Bibi on ice!

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This was a reasonable thing to point out, but the title you used ends up blunting your point completely.

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I looked into this because I thought that you must be missing something, but yes, you are correct.

Both the F-Droid package as well as the one on the Proton’s GitHub page do not allow for guest logins. This is curious. Perhaps the guest account option requires some sort of non-free library? I’d be interested in the answer to your question.

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People have rightly said that their executives are overpaid. However it’s unclear what revenue streams they have. In terms of user services they sell a VPN. I think that’s about it. That’s not going to cut it even if they do lay off tons of people.

Browsers are complicated pieces of software and there needs to be a lot of money behind them if they’re going to succeed.

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I’m new to it, but I’m really enjoying libredirect so far.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

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Everyone should listen to Aldi-brand Bill Maher.

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