{"id":60108,"date":"2024-04-14T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=368c0213d552802ab9dbf7e4e02336ee"},"modified":"2024-04-14T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T19:08:10","slug":"personal-vpn-services-are-snake-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=60108","title":{"rendered":"Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/httpscolonforwardslashforwardslashwwwdotzoltanbalazsdotcom.com\/2024\/03\/01\/VPN-Snakeoil.html\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: They're for consuming arbitrarily geo-fenced content, torrenting, and other \"someone will personally or legally harass you for trying to consume content without subjecting yourself to the middlemen's increasingly outrageous terms\" applications.\nMost of the privacy marketing on VPNs is like a \"For tobacco use only\" sticker on a bong.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=40033522\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=60108\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}