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I’ve only been using VPNs seriously for the past few days, since the UK laws have come in.

I have previously used VPNs for occasional regional issues like accessing Polymarket to see how badly my 12 x $1 bets are doing.

I actually have no need to use VPNs despite the recent regulatory change, no site has asked me for ID, including X which I have posted a few things to.

I’m using VPNs now primarily as a protest against the latest government over reach.

My conclusions, VPNs are fine, they work and the speeds are fine, but I’m definitely struggling with the latency. Streaming YouTube is fine, but waiting for a simple web page to load is the kicker, it is noticeably slower and is wasting a significant amount of my time.

I’ll probably turn off the VPNs for default browsing and only turn then on if I am challenged to provide unnecessary ID.
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Condor 5mo ago

I have 24/24 VPN on hardware router. Use wireguard instead of other slower VPN. Latency will not be an issue

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mike 5mo ago

Not an option for me, I'm mostly using Mullvad inside Tailscale.

I use Tailscale to connect my various sites together as a single LAN and Mullvad sits inside Tailscale and is the only VPN that doesn't break my virtual LAN.

I use Mysterium on a separate desktop fedora Linux box as it isn't included in my VLAN and so I get a chance to test it as a user. Something that interests me as I've been providing Mysterium exit nodes for several years now and earning enough money to fund my broadband and VPNs 😂

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Condor 5mo ago

Great... Pat your shoulder. Success in life

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mike 5mo ago

I was hoping for a little more in the success department TBH 😂