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3. You live in a country where your ISP is legally mandated to record all of your browsing history and make it available to the government.

4. You live in a country where certain websites are blocked because the government doesn’t agree with them, or because those websites don’t want to deal with your country.



Those countries probably block VPN services, especially the popular ones which buy all the ads.


There are some countries that block VPNs but there’s also many countries that don’t. For example, TPB is blocked in UK by court order but VPNs work just fine.


Certain Russian news websites are DNS blocked in the EU. I haven't heard of anyone having serious issues using a VPN.




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