This is so strange to me. I guess people enjoy being ripped off and getting less and less value for their money.

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    10 months ago

    One way I have reduced my subscriptions is by using control d. I know vpns are popular on lemmy but I found it an annoying to have to have a vpn for each device I wanted to bypass a country lock. Moreover it was annoyyng for some devices like apple tv that does not support a vpn. Establishing a vpn on the firewall broke other services that I needed to work locally in my country.

    Control d on the other hand is a dns proxy tunnel so you just alter the dns on the devices you want to use it, and in their control panel you can have different countries per service - so if you browse youtube that can go via a country that does not allow ads. Bbc iplayer can be told to go via uk and so on. This is a lot more convenient and allows you to retain your country for all services except the ones you want to tunnel.

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      10 months ago

      Thanks for this tip. I hadn’t heard about this before, and it sounds like an interesting thing to add to my tool chest.

      so if you browse youtube that can go via a country that does not allow ads.

      Can you tell me more about this? I’ve never heard about that this is a thing, and it sounds like a good thing to known

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      10 months ago

      For the annoyance, you could just use some open source firewall like opnsense to create a site to site to your VPN provider and route anything destined for your shady services through it.