*** VPN Thread ***

[Avalon]

What country is the best to pretend to be in for "browsing"?

Iceland seemed to work, also Algeria but the website had Arabic text in places which I dared not click, probably get a camel or something.

Literally anywhere that is not the UK. We are the only western country dumb enough to have done this. Texas did something similar, but that’s just Texas for you.

 

[Rainmaker]

Albania does have the advantage of not having YouTube ads.

 

[Hopper-]

I use Ireland location - close enough so speed & latency isn't normally an issue.

 

[Disco_P]

Ireland is my go to as everything is still in English.

 

[Eddie99]

 

[Caged]

Important to distinguish between people who are using a VPN to change their region, and people using a VPN because their internet access is heavily monitored and there are criminal consequences for accessing certain material. For the majority of people it's the first category, and potential DNS leaks don't matter.