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Well, just that. Wich is stronger against trackers, hackers and doxxing threats? Proton VPN (I'm using this one actually), or Mullvad VPN?

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You start with "a VPN is a VPN." However you qualify it, it's not true unless you're merely stating a tautology, which doesn't seem constructive or helpful.

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You ever notice how it sometimes helps to read the whole sentence to understand what some part of it means in context?

A VPN is a VPN, having a different IP address is equally effective against those things no matter which IP it is.

There's a comma after that second VPN so obviously it's related to what follows, which is the part where I describe exactly how a VPN is a VPN: in terms of getting a different IP address. This is twice now you've gone way out on a limb here trying to back the play of some fucking troll who didn't bother to explain themselves and I'm not sure if that's where you want to be. Picking through my comment and taking bits out of context to feed back to me as 'evidence' to back up your pedantry and assumption that the rest of the text of that same comment shows you to be wrong about is not a good look. If you're going to nitpick my shit to death then you should at least try to read the whole thing and understand how each of the parts relate to each other first, otherwise people might mistake you for some fucking troll too (albeit a clearly slightly more intelligent one since you can actually elucidate what your issue is with what I said, regardless of whether or not it's remotely accurate.)

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Wow. You are a capital-D douche.

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

I hope you'll understand why I'm not going to take my opinion on douches from the guy trying to pick apart my helpful comment with a flood of pedantic bullshit.