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Re:PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your ... by oefrha on Saturday November 23, 2019 @05:02AM (#21613349)
Just cancelled too.

Given all the shilling and backstabbing in the online VPN recommendation industry, it’s hard to trust any advice now, not even comments here. God knows who’s a shill.

But those geoblocks and the occasional need to anonymize activities... Really hard to solve. (I know Tor. Tor is too damn slow.)

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Re:PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your ... by dvosar34 on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @10:13AM (#21648477)
Actually, far worse than the shills are the cancelling virtue signallers who have nothing better to do than 1) quit a service because someone tells them to; 2) go running to that forum looking for approval by telling them "I cancelled!"

Oh look, you're one of them. (pat on head)

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Re:PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your ... by leesalminen on Saturday November 23, 2019 @05:17AM (#21613387)
Buy a pre paid Visa card in cash and rent a box from a cloud/VPS. Install OpenVPN etc and set up auto updates.
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Re:PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your ... by Freak_NL on Saturday November 23, 2019 @05:35AM (#21613438)
How many countries are left where you can buy an anonymous credit card in exchange for cash? That is, over the counter in a physical store?

Don't the Know Your Customer laws banks have to adhere to mean that anonymous cards are essentially a thing of the past?

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Re:PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your ... by gambiting on Saturday November 23, 2019 @05:42AM (#21613469)
In the UK you can buy a "travel card" with cash at any Post Office counter, they are just regular MasterCard cards and can be used like any other debit card, including online purchases. They are even reloadable and contactless too.
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Re:PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your ... by w14 on Saturday November 23, 2019 @07:00AM (#21613696)
Post Office travel cards are not anonymous. They have to be activated and photo id is required to buy them over the counter [1].

[1] https://www.postoffice.co.uk/travel-money/card

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Re:PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your ... by johnnycab on Saturday November 23, 2019 @08:50AM (#21614080)
It might be far easier to buy crypto via an ATM. Sure, it will cost a bit more but you will have some anonymity.

https://coinatmradar.com/

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Re:PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your ... by syshum on Saturday November 23, 2019 @06:47AM (#21613652)
Very common in almost many stores in the US, Large companies like Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, sell them

Plus in many places you can bring in Change to a CoinStar can convert your coins to a Visa Gift card

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