Run a VPN πŸ‘€

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I’ve got a bone to pick with you.

I started used Mullvad to play Polymarket, now I can’t convince the BBC to stream films and my bank has refused to pay out any money πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

For banking I usually change the region to something closer to home. Some services need it to be turned off though πŸ˜­πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

Actually this is semi serious, once I’ve visited the BBC from a VPN IP, it remembers me and won’t change the region back even if I turn off the VPN.

I have to reboot the computer πŸ₯Ή

Even if you switch back the region before turning it off?

Yes

Maybe switxh browsers

Different browser could work

Yes, that does work sometimes.

VPN use / prevention is an escalating arms race nobody warned me about before I went down this road of no return.

I’m already down $3 on my $12 Polymarket bet.

I have another year to go before the final bet pays out πŸ˜‚

I know it's a crazy idea, but one solution is to forego anything that comes from the BBC.

But what will I moan about?

To be clear, mullvad, proton, etc. are glorified proxies masquerading as a VPN.

For a real VPN, you want wireguard or headscale/tailscale and some VPS instances. A few hosts, Networked, in a Private way, that's Virtual, not bound to physical connections.

I find it hard to believe the mulls & protons of the world are anything but massive honeypots.

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