What is the point of VPN?Yes, you hide your IP address but you can't hide the fact that you are hiding your IP address because your new VPN IP address is already known as a datacenter IP address and you'll get automatically treated as a bot everywhere.Also, using a VPN requires you to install that VPN company's client software on your PC which can be considered as a privacy problem on its own.
>you can't hide the fact that you are hiding your IP address because your new VPN IP address is already known as a datacenter IP address and you'll get automatically treated as a bot everywhere.I guess you haven't heard of residential proxies huh
>>107858499Do you have any idea about the pricing for residential proxies; it's like 10x VPN. Also, they are all shady af.
>>107858488A large number of websites refuse to serve my country of residence, but will serve an IP in one of mullvad's ASes just fine
>>107858488>using a VPN requires you to install that VPN company's client software on your PC which can be considered as a privacy problem on its ownThere are open source clients like OpenVPN and Wireguard.
>>107858537how did you pay for mullvad? with monero?
>>107858561Like a normal person
>Also, using a VPN requires you to install that VPN company's client software on your PC which can be considered as a privacy problem on its own.No such thing is required. Those executables you downloaded when you typed "how hide IP VPN free 2026?" into google weren't legit little bro.
>>107858561I send via carrier pigeon to their Stockholm offices
>>107858488>What is the point of VPN?big lan network, as simple as>Yes, you hide your IP addressfrom who?>but you can't hide the fact that you are hiding your IP address vpn aren't designed to hide anything>because your new VPN IP address is already known as a datacenter IP address and you'll get automatically treated as a bot everywhere.who forced you to use a datacenter?>Also, using a VPN requires you to install that VPN company's client software on your PCyou are fake newsyou say "vpn" while in fact you're talking about geoblocking-escape providers, I would not call these companies vpn providers as that's not really the service they sell, they aren't extending your lan and oyu don't have access to anything on theirs, you use it to escape geoblocking, that's pretty much teh only usecase for these things.
>>107858488>Also, using a VPN requires you to install that VPN company's client software on your PC which can be considered as a privacy problem on its own.Only if you are retarded and use the bad ones. All okay VPN providers offer you to use wireguard/openvpn configs instead. That being said, all VPNs suck.
>>107858499>>107858524What's the difference between those and VPNs?
>>107858488>you can't hide the fact that you are hiding your IP addresst. Two-Digit IQ
>>107858821"residential proxies" are hacked residential networksyoure basically piggybacking off the internet of some random family
>>107858864Oh, I see. I thought it was some legal service.
>>107858872Only in the sense that crime is legal if you're an AI company.
>>107858488To bypass arbitrary website blocks that may exist in certain countries, get access to more info, buy stuff, get a slightly higher level of privacy. Paying extra for a dedicated IP won't get you treated as a bot. Mullvad only provides shared dynamic IP's but that'd still be sufficient to bypass website blocks.
>>107858872it is legal and people who agree to this are getting paid $0.003/h for running a crypto "passive income" app(they don't know some random guy from Pakistan is downloading 48tb of cp using their network)
>>107858488>Yes, you hide your IP address That is precisely NOT the point of VPN.lurk moar, get a clue.
