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https://www.doineedavpn.com enumerates legitimate use cases well I think.

> This site was conceived and built by IVPN to challenge aggressive marketing practices in the VPN industry.




> Hide geographic location

> VPNs do not effectively solve this issue. Most modern browsers can detect the geographic location of a device based on data from GPS, available Wi-Fi networks and GSM/CDMA cell IDs and will submit this information to websites requesting it.

Did I miss something? Even the ad-tech browser will ask the user before sharing that?


I block the Mozilla positioning trackers. They were getting over a million request per month from my household. It’s just a regular API call from any website and doesn’t need any browser permissions.




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