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0 pointswlesieutre6y ago0 comments

Same boat, I haven't torrented a movie in years because Netflix gave me a good way to pay for them.

But now I have two streaming subscriptions and the catalog between them is still too sparse. I think I'd need 4 or 5 separate subscriptions to stop losing the "is this somewhere that I can watch it?" game.

Plus I have a VPN account that my phone and tablet are connected through almost all the time. I don't like having to leave that turned off when I want to watch something, often I'm multitasking and it means whatever else I'm doing is now connecting from my home IP address.

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Holmes6y ago

Can you recommend a good VPN for this use case?

wlesieutreOP6y ago

I'm using PIA, but they were purchased recently by Kape Technologies so I'm not sure if I'll re-up when my subscription expires. Where I'm at right now is they're probably more trustworthy than Comcast, and less likely to do something like selling my IP address -> personal identity to advertisers.

https://www.hackread.com/private-internet-access-pia-vpn-sol...

They say it doesn't change anything, but with VPN services you really have no way of knowing how trustworthy they are.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/the-continually-e...

Still, I figure on balance I'm better off having my internet browsing aggregated with all the other traffic coming out of their endpoints versus coming from my modem's IP address.

fernandotakai6y ago

i signed up for PIA using paypal (i thought i was just setting up my payment source, but they fully created an account) and they sent me an username + password in plain text via email.

i cannot trust a company that does that.

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