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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by icebraining on Saturday April 07, 2018 @06:21AM (#16780165)
Nowadays, not really, plenty of people use them to avoid geo blocking.
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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by akvadrako on Saturday April 07, 2018 @06:12PM (#16783310)
Plenty like under 0,1% ? That doesn’t make it less of a target.
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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by icebraining on Sunday April 08, 2018 @03:31AM (#16785074)
It's hard to get reliable numbers, but Global Web Index puts it at about 5% of the US internet users, so over 10 million people.
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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by akvadrako on Sunday April 08, 2018 @06:00AM (#16785434)
That's an absurd number for users of any kind of geo-unblocking DNS service, especially in the US where you barely need it.
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