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[โ€“] oatscoop@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I took their comment to mean "companies offering VPN services as a subscription for the purpose of privacy".

It wouldn't be hard to target those companies specifically while leaving every other "legitimate" (in their view) use cases for VPNs alone.

[โ€“] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A lot of people aren't aware that VPNs are used to connect to internal networks, just "it's this thing that I see commercials about that says it protects my privacy and allows me to access content not available in my country". Hell, if you asked them what VPN stood for 90% of them would be like ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

I work in IT and can tell you that most people have zero clue about technology, even the things they use every day.