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Third-party VPNs are still untrustworthy

Jason Weisberger
May 27, 2025
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Unless you need to masquerade your geography to access a restricted website, get around a government restriction, or want to run BitTorrent, there isn't much use for a third-party VPN anymore.

As HTTPS has long since become the standard, third-party VPNs have lost much of their utility. Even necessary VPNs tend to complicate things, and frequ…

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