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What are the drawbacks of using VPN to browse the internet?
In most cases, your network access is slower through a VPN than not. The exception would be if for some reason the route to the VPN server is faster than the route elsewhere (perhaps your network gives a priority to the VPN server, has a fast connection to the VPN server, and the VPN server has a faRead more
In most cases, your network access is slower through a VPN than not. The exception would be if for some reason the route to the VPN server is faster than the route elsewhere (perhaps your network gives a priority to the VPN server, has a fast connection to the VPN server, and the VPN server has a faster connection to the rest of the Internet than your non-VPN access). That’s because of the additional time to encrypt and encode the traffic within the VPN protocol on both ends, and to pass traffic via the server instead of directly to the end point. Besides for securing your traffic from the being easily snooped by your immediate router/Internet service provider, a VPN is sometimes used to make your traffic to the remote server, appear to originate from the geographical location of the VPN server, instead of from your actual geographical location. This is sometimes desirable, if you want to access services that are blocked by the remote server to your geographical location, but sometimes it can be the other way round, i.e. you get served localized contents that are localised to the location of the VPN server instead of your own location. Up to you to see if that’s a disadvantage. In some cases, aggressive policies on your router/Internet service provider may block the use of a VPN, or limit its use by slowing down your service if a VPN is detected.
See lessHave you every had the police show up at your apartment in an unexpected way?
My friend randomly showed up at my place at 3am barefoot and crying. She told me she and her boyfriend got into a fight and he assaulted her and since I lived only a couple blocks away she came straight to my place. Then about 30 minutes later I got another knock on the door and it was a police offiRead more
My friend randomly showed up at my place at 3am barefoot and crying. She told me she and her boyfriend got into a fight and he assaulted her and since I lived only a couple blocks away she came straight to my place. Then about 30 minutes later I got another knock on the door and it was a police officer. He said that a neighbor had witnessed the fight because it happened at their backyard and he called 911. When they got to my friend’s apartment they found it destroyed and her boyfriend was half passed out drunk on the floor. They managed to get him awake enough to tell them where he thought my friend went and he said probably my place. After we talked to the officer he suggested my friend should go with him to the courthouse to file an emergency restraining order. So he drove us there and stayed with us the whole time to walk her through the process and then drove us back after the order was granted. He was genuinely very kind and compassionate towards her and did everything he could to make sure she was okay. And honestly I was quite surprised because up until that point all of my experiences with cops had only been neutral to bad and it still remains my only positive experience with the police.
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