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Re:Who Owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN Relationships ... by WarOnPrivacy on Monday October 06, 2025 @05:55PM (#45496772)
> Getting access to geolocked data

I use VPNs when I'm trying to ferret out the scope of an outage. I have VPN servers on local ISP which moves me around different routing. I use a commercial service to move me further out and to other countries.

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Re:Who Owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN Relationships ... by hshdhdhehd on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:24AM (#45501050)
So you are doing a manual version of what uptime monitors do.
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Re:Who Owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN Relationships ... by WarOnPrivacy on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:26PM (#45509096)
Sort of. I suppose the difference is that I don't need to know in advance where the fault is. ex: An upstream, 3rd party service provider appears offline.
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