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I've been using one but I'm not sure what benefits I'm getting from it. I feel like the only thing happening is I'm adding a little bit of latency to all my requests for no reason.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Agree to disagree.

It is a main reason to use a VPN, that's for sure.

It is not the only one, but any pirate in countries like Germany that does not use a VPN is cooked.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

But other solutions work also. And all of those provide anonymity and are not a VPN. For example I2P, TOR and Seedboxes in other countries may even be paid anonymously.

Pirates use anonymity in order to avoid being detected, and those tools provide anonymity.