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The user asked for technical advice because they don't trust "normies". Explaining what you are using a piece of software for is table stakes in order to provide relevant advice. We can use a different word from "justify" if it makes you upset.

The VPN has a free version that you can upgrade later, so there’s limited features, but importantly no ads or insane data tracking.

My comrades if a Swiss VPN company is offering you a free version, your data is being tracked.

Yeah they do. They are only pirating stuff, not doing super secret spy shit. What they may expose themselves to with a "free" VPN could be malware or really anything. I'd rather risk a scary letter from my ISP instead. It would be irresponsible not to educate them on the potential pitfalls.

I feel you, the slop is one of the few things keeping me going in this shithole. You may be able to use a free SOCKS5 proxy to achieve it, and I guess if you only use it when you'll probably be ok. I would still be highly suspect.

Well it's your digital safety comrade. I'm not sure what you're doing with a VPN that you desperately need to keep doing even though you can't afford it, but I can't reasonably believe that a free VPN would be the way to go in your situation...

If you can't do without it, pay for it. Joining a "free" VPN would almost certainly open you up to all sorts of badware and surveillance. It's a lib thing to say, but if you aren't paying for it, you're the product.

Others may have opinions on VPNs generally, but I'd only trust them for piracy or something. If you are doing anything else that you want to hide, I wouldn't trust a single one in the anglosphere.

Haha yeah I have the same problem with emotes too. I think we need to do a better job of adding keywords or improve the search

~~Rescheduling Marijuana~~ America Continuing to Exist Is an Enormous Mistake

the consoomers are healing

huge Flaming lips

lol I didn't know it was a lyrical reference, i just like the angst because im one of the resident doomers