Virtual private networks or VPNs, have many uses. By surfing through a VPN, users can mask a large proportion of personal data, obfuscate location, and conceal surfing patterns. This makes them useful to people with many different use-cases.
Human rights activists who don’t wish to be tracked by hostile regimes use them; corporates seeking end-to-end encryption for communications use them; people who wish to access geo-blocked websites, and content, use them; people who wish to access online banking services only available to residents of a given country use them; those who simply wish to protect their data use them.
One common use
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