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More Than Half of Gen Z Users Cancel and Renew Streaming Services for a Single Title, Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study Finds (variety.com)
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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

But will pay for a VPN to run torrents or just risk the exposure?

[–] tslojr@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've been using a private tracker and no vpn for the last 15 years.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I forgot about private trackers. Yeah, if you can get into those they can be pretty good. You normally have to worry about your seed ratio for those private sites though. At least the one I was a member of wayyy back in the day.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Buying a Usenet plan is like buying a cell phone plan in the 90’s; there’s limits and download caps and is my Usenet group restricted and all sorts of things to figure out.

Buying a VPN doesn’t have download caps and restrictions on specific websites. It just works.

And, yes, buying access to a VPN is not only radically easier but can also be used on my phone / laptop / etc to prevent advertisement/ISP snooping. Can I do that with a Usenet subscription?

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What are you talking about? My usenet subscription is unlimited less than $10/month and it even comes with a VPN subscription. Nothing hard to figure out at all. Certainly nothing harder than figuring out which VPN to subscribe to.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Which one?

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Usenet Server

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, which Usenet Server service?