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This is about cookie banners on websites

There was another time I got into a very serious ontological discussion with a fairly senior engineer about what the difference was between taxes and fines and they didn’t understand there was a difference,” he said.

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[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago
[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago

If you trust your ISP to examine all your web traffic, and if you don't mind every site you visit knowing your real IP address, and if you're not worried about hackers and sniffers on public wifi stealing your data, then I suppose you don't need one.

But if by overrated, you mean they only handle certain aspects of security and aren't a complete solution by themselves, then I agree. But no one who understands VPNs expects them to be a complete solution by themselves.

[-] DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 1 points 35 minutes ago

Depends on why you're using it.

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