A reasonable question.

The laws have always been in place for us, not them.

I agree.

I’m noticing this species has a problem with doing things the obviously correct way the first time.

It’s as though we’d rather put 100x more effort for 10% of the results just to prove that we “can” do it.

Good!!!

Piracy is a service problem.

Hey look everyone, he repeated it!

Go to any country without an egregious amount of excessive wealth and you’ll see fast how worldwide, piracy is a solution to the ever-growing disparity in wealth.

Like it or not, this is still consumerist rhetoric.

Anti-consumers and anti-suckers will say “do whatever gives you the best deal.”

It’s all business at the end of the day. These companies aren’t our friends.

And Okular!

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That’s the point.

Along with censorship.

How so? I’ve admitted in my post that I wasted money by paying for a VPN for years.

“If a service is free, you are not the customer, you are the product”

There it is, he regurgitated it!

No, the real issue is that people don’t want to admit when they’ve been taken for a ride. I see it all the time and don’t expect more from consumers at this point.

Anything to avoid admitting you spent money on something you could’ve gotten for free.

“It’s easier to fool a man than to convince him he’d been fooled.” - Mark Twain

Thanks for the reasonable and informative response.

The powers that be want to make sure that us workers never see value in those people.

On their website it’s said they’re funded by donations.

You would be wise to, you know, at least check out their website before making up your own nonsense.

This is FUD that’s peddled to consumers so you don’t feel bad about spending money on something you could be getting for free. Have you no concept of all the paid services that also harvest your data? It’s a non-determining factor at this point.

Try to see things from a practical perspective, instead of parroting “sayings” as though they are absolute fact.

You could save some money for it!

I would, but it’s better to make discussions of censorship public.

I don’t trust anyone who abuses their power, so I’m not going to try and reason with them personally.

At this point, it’s becoming clearer that there is a concerted effort to stifle any discussion of free VPNs on the internet.

I encourage anyone with a brain to try for themselves instead of letting others make decisions for them. Theory is no substitute for experience, and you could be wasting a lot of money just to fit in with suckers on the internet.

Nothing.

Yeah, saving money totally makes me a useful idiot.

Defending spending money on something you could be getting for free doesn’t make you one.

No, unfortunately (at least to the best of my knowledge.)

This is the one advantage the paid VPN I was using has over Riseup.