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Re:Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company by RandallBrown on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @10:23AM (#20095289)
Are most people using VPNs for privacy? Every individual I know that pays for one does it so they can watch TV in a different country or something similar.

There's also lots of businesses that use them for accessing internal networks externally.

I've never met anyone in real life that is using one for privacy reasons.

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Re:Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company by bravoetch on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @10:53AM (#20095590)
Using a VPN to watch TV in another country is a privacy reason.
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Re:Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company by mdorazio on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @11:18AM (#20095818)
The end result might be privacy, but the demand is for bypassing content blocking. Your average user of a VPN doesn't care if it prevents people from identifying them, all they care about is if it lets them watch The Office from wherever they are.
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Re:Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company by a1369209993 on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:08PM (#20096333)
Well, you could argue about whether it counts as privacy per se, but: a, they don't care to ensure that no one can identify them; b, they very much do care that it prevents whatever server they're getting The Office from from identifying them.
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