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Discussion on: Using A VPN

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Ben Sinclair

I use a VPN on my phone whenever I'm on a foreign network. This comes in hand in places like on trains, because the VPN will fail to connect when the train company is trying to MITM my connection... like Virgin trains do. I'd rather not use their Wi-Fi at all in that case.

I use a VPN for testing geolocation services at work a fair bit. For example, I worked on a site for a sporting event which had live TV streams to multiple countries. We had to tailor the schedule and promotors depending on each visitor's country, so using a VPN where I could pick a different country with the click of a mouse was very useful. Once it went to QA, the QA team did something similar.

I also use a VPN with its own DNS and adblocking: privateinternetaccess - which means I get a reduction in the ads to my phone without having to root it. I've had nothing but good service from them.