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Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service by samwhiteUK on Friday October 16, 2020 @07:40AM (#24799771)
Semantics. It's not FreeVPN (the organisation) who are throttling or bottlenecking you, it's the node you're connected to.
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Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service by _underfl0w_ on Friday October 16, 2020 @10:40AM (#24801233)
While the distinction between these two concepts is purely semantic to tech folks, the choice by this company to exploit that purely semantic difference by tacitly implying a falsehood in marketing to non-tech-tolks is significant.
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