lexity
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Customers have to first consider themselves worse off, relying on govt-protection in markets full of voracious, capitalist pigs, before they can be considered to be reformed free-lunch addicts.
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lexity
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A bit like Trump, in his previous term.
Corelli
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I am fine they charge Netflix a streaming fee....however
1. This will be passed onto the consumer.
2. If we consider local content creation....everytime the boks play they create content. So can we invest in that instead?
1. This will be passed onto the consumer.
2. If we consider local content creation....everytime the boks play they create content. So can we invest in that instead?
lexity
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lexity
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lexity
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From ze boks to ze bugs....
Biltong tax incoming?
grass-hoppers = 'Springbugs'
Don't be cruel to the environment, now
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deweyzeph
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It's impossible to ban VPN's. Not even China has managed to get it right. The only sure-fire way is to cut-off the internet completely.
lexity
Honorary Master
Perhaps. I guess that makes one wonder what would an internet 'cut-off' look like?
If you used a search engine and it only returned govt-approved results?
All ISP's had to pass a quality standard involving a clean record of non-VPN-resembling traffic, else no connection to govt regulated internet backbone?
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lexity
Honorary Master
Goeble search results went from numerous-but-interesting:
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle,
to few-but-uncomfortably-predictable:
Goeble.
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle,
to few-but-uncomfortably-predictable:
Goeble.
deweyzeph
Honorary Master
That's the problem though, identifying VPN traffic is incredibly difficult.
lexity
Honorary Master
Maybe I got it wrong then. Who knows?
I'd have said it's not that difficult if you rely on your customer's ip address.
Is it not at least within a confined range with a VPN?
Your ISP has to know the ip ddress of your destination.... which is effectively the same for each request. Even if it isn't a single IP address, it can be determined to be the same organization.
Have I got that wrong?
semaphore
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Yes you’ve got it wrong.
lexity
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I'll take it with a grain of salt. I'll bet it functions more like a tax. Also these are more complex tax systems where you can often get tax credits for investing so it may pay itself back. SA however doesn't have the clout so if they make it too onerous and expensive they'll simply show SA the middle finger.
Pay YOURS, it's the right thing to do.
Tell me more.
Good VPN services use a number of tricks to help disguise their efforts. It's a bit like the virus / anti-virus wars, changes needed and implemented on a regular basis.
There's no "set IP addresses", and the better ones will change those regularly. Users aren't usually aware of that.
Some of the more determined content providers seem to be keeping an eye on IP's used though - easy enough, just subscribe and then keep checking the usage thoroughly. I've only come across one case of this.
But as we have both seen, there is some sort of organised attempt to prevent VPN use going on in a few places - you saw India, I saw Pakistan and Russia. In the end it strongly helps protect privacy though, so doubt they can make a dent in gaining control.
Only 2 or 3 VPN's are really tops. Most on the forum usually first recommend Windscribe, me too.
lexity
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I imagine the way it works being similar to getting into a taxi.
The driver needs an address to take you to. Otherwise there's no point in getting into the taxi. Unless small talk is your favorite past-time and you don't mind him running that meter, while he tells you all about how he's struggling to get his kids through university.
But, you could give him an address from which you take another taxi. So this is a proxy. And you could do the same a couple more times. So none of them know your final address.
Or as you suggested, perhaps - prhaps - the destination is genuinely changing all the time e.g the VPN service is registering different addresses all the time. Not sure if that is really what happens, tho'. Maybe someone can share some more information.
That's sort of it - your content is encrypted (talking about better VPN services now, doubt that's done on the Opera browser default VPN for example) , then it's sent to their proxy, decoded, and delivered further / receives on your behalf from there.
You choose the proxy's "location".
AFAIK it's just one proxy involved, don't think you ever get automatically shifted around in that respect. But each "proxy port of call" may at times choose to change the IP(s) in use for them.
No, I meant something like changing it every 2 or 3 days. If also the above idea sometimes ^^ then not something I've heard about.
One last thought - some VPN's give a free service as well so try it, only restrictions I've seen is a set amount of bandwidth (usually generous enough) and less locations to chose from. Some of them have amazing extra tools included.
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SABC a cornerstone of democracy,.... boy does the ANC know how to talk bovine excrement. the SABC has never been anything other then a propaganda machine for the sitting regime, be it the current scum or the NP scum they replaced.