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VPN is insanely easy today

How do I install a VPN on my SmartTV exactly? How do I make it actually work, even using VPN-on-a-router, given the importance CDNs have and how they use the location of your DNS resolver to attempt to give you nearest copies?

How do I explain to the hypothetical 68 yo grandmother why she has to disable the VPN to use (Australian geoblocked catch-up TV Service) iView and then reenable it to browse, but she won't be able to buy Kindle books when it is enabled unless she had it enabled when she first setup an Amazon account and her credit card also has a US address, and...

How is a user supposed to move the keys from their mobile device to their PC when most users can't even get photos off their phones.



Well since the connection is tunneled to the VPN server, the shortest hop in that topology will be the IP of the VPN server anyway for the CDN.

And you would locate the VPN server inside the same country, unless those services are blocking by ISP or similar.


Why are you even letting your SmartTV connect to the internet at all? Those things are horribly insecure and just spy on you anyway.


Convenience vs. security. It's incredibly convenient to be able to stream Netflix on a TV without having to purchase some other device, use multiple remotes, etc. I would say privacy-conscious consumers are likely the minority. I'd imagine most consumers would rather be able to watch movies with the push of a button than worry about the implications of letting their TV connect to the Internet.


Your grandmother being older and wiser than you, she would stop caring about the user-hostile businesses you mention. Being able to circumvent anti-privacy measures is a good skill to have, but actually doing it is ultimately less useful than quitting.




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