• Bobo The Great@sopuli.xyz
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    22 hours ago

    Because streaming over tor is 1) painfully slow and 2) a dick move for the whole network that is very important to others.

    VPN don’t give a crap about people pirating, and governments probably don’t as much as people think (I guess that depends heavily on your country), but if you really want to be safe, go for one of the logless vpn, like mullvad or ivpn.

    • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      That’s fair piracy probably is safer than most people have you believe.

      I still wouldn’t go for any VPN that clearly logs stuff that can be traced back to me, that would defeat most of the purpose (unless it’s one for accessing machines in my home network).

      Also if you’re downloading it first I don’t really see the relevance of speed, just do it the day before.

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        7 hours ago

        Technically a vpn is a private company while ISPs I guess have less freedom over government request compliance. So a vpn would be slightly better but yes, very little added value if it’s one of the mainstream ones like nord or tunnelbear