▲ 407 ▼ US bill threatens to turn your VPN into a piracy blocklist (www.techradar.com) submitted 6 days ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world 50 comments fedilink hide all child comments The American Copyright Protection Act aims to force ISPs, DNS resolvers, and VPNs to cut off access to foreign piracy sites
[–] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 4 days ago (4 children) Looks at the 99% who can't afford a VPS You're forgetting the most important thing permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (1 child) avg comes with one. pita, sometimes it turns it on when i don't want to use it. I used to mess around with it because I got avg because my phone kept getting hacked and I was like this thing comes with a vpn!!!!!!!! whaaaaaaat but tbh I have no use for t so I don't even use it. ngl though, if i went out of the country and needed to access paypal instead of using zelle, id use it, other than that, it's annoying when i do a virus scan and it gets turned on after. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] amgine@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago Don’t use or trust avg permalink fedilink source parent [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 days ago (1 child) They can be found for less than $20 a month. They're on par with 1-2 streaming services you can drop. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org -1 points 4 days ago For some people that really need that, even less than one dollar is too much. $20 is basically matter of life or death. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (1 child) avg comes with one. pita, sometimes it turns it on when i don't want to use it. I used to mess around with it because I got avg because my phone kept getting hacked and I was like this thing comes with a vpn!!!!!!!! whaaaaaaat but tbh I have no use for t so I don't even use it. ngl though, if i went out of the country and needed to access paypal instead of using zelle, id use it, other than that, it's annoying when i do a virus scan and it gets turned on after. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] amgine@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago Don’t use or trust avg permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 days ago (1 child) They can be found for less than $20 a month. They're on par with 1-2 streaming services you can drop. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org -1 points 4 days ago For some people that really need that, even less than one dollar is too much. $20 is basically matter of life or death. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org -1 points 4 days ago For some people that really need that, even less than one dollar is too much. $20 is basically matter of life or death. permalink fedilink source parent