I’ve been using one but I’m not sure what benefits I’m getting from it. I feel like the only thing happening is I’m adding a little bit of latency to all my requests for no reason.

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    18 hours ago

    The benefits of the nowadays VPNs are mainly privacy and piracy related.

    Piracy is actually not the reason to use a VPN, pirates use a VPN to be anonyme and not to pirate content.

    Similar as you would not say a hammer is a tool that can be used to hit something and not a hammer is used by construction wormers and burglars.

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      17 hours ago

      Agree to disagree.

      It is a main reason to use a VPN, that’s for sure.

      It is not the only one, but any pirate in countries like Germany that does not use a VPN is cooked.

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        16 hours ago

        But other solutions work also. And all of those provide anonymity and are not a VPN. For example I2P, TOR and Seedboxes in other countries may even be paid anonymously.

        Pirates use anonymity in order to avoid being detected, and those tools provide anonymity.