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What happened to APKPure?
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this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2024
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Using a VPN, even if the server is located in the same country, provides several benefits:
Privacy: It encrypts your internet traffic, hiding your online activities from your ISP and potential eavesdroppers.
Security: It secures your data, especially on public Wi-Fi networks.
Bypass Restrictions: It can bypass internet censorship or network restrictions in workplaces.
Avoid ISP Throttling: It can prevent ISP throttling based on content type or data usage, ensuring consistent internet speed and performance.
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You get all of those but improved no. 3 because you bypass any national blocks and rights blocks. For example you can't watch Channel 4 Youtube videos if you have a UK IP. But you can outside the UK.
Also point 1 is more private if you go outside your nation so the exit server can't be seized. Highly unlikely but if you're going to use a VPN why not use it properly with no downsides?
So it's always best to use a VPN that's outside the country you're in.
So a Canadian using a Seppo or a Brit using a Dutch.
Sometimes you might still want the services in your own country to act as if you're in your own country. (I don't use one but) for example I live in the UK and I wouldn't want my VPN to tell Disney+ I'm in the US cause Disney+ is better in the UK with more content.
UK's pretty shit right now, isn't it? I wish Rishi would hurry up and call an election before I hang myself.
The country itself, yeah, pretty shit.
I mean, if privacy is really your concern you really shouldn't use UK servers at all or any other country that's part of the Five Eyes (or other such alliances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes).
Also, people use VPNs for different reasons, like not wanting your workplace to know your browsing Lemmy during office hours. This is such a strangely confrontational post considering people seem to just be trying to help OP troubleshoot their problem.
On the original point, I can't seem to access APKPure either, VPN connected to Singapore. Might try other connections when I'm not at work.
I don't use the UK because that's the country I'm in. I use Sweden or Netherlands.