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Been there. Rest assured that in those cases, it's more about the journey than the destination.
Fair enough, I hadn't considered repair job when I wrote that.
But if I were you, I'd be really careful about that "never". If you're old enough, you might have retired by the time your job will be replaced, but it's going to happen.
Haven't welding robots been a thing for ages? In a few years that bot can do your job, and figure out how to do it more efficiently while it's doing it.
Hell no. Autosave, bitches.
The only thing you're "protecting" yourself from by using a vpn to surf the Internet, is your own provider. It won't stop any spying software on your phone, or any nefarious scripts on the websites you visit.
Tom's argument was more nuanced than that, which is why I linked it. I suggest you watch it and explain where he's wrong if you want to give your argument to ignore him any weight. Ad hominems and "imagined" arguments alone won't get you very far, I'm afraid.
I'm interested to hear what you think a vpn will protect you against. Or what you think the flaws in Toms arguments are.
Edit: I don't know about you, but I trust my own, GDPR-backed isp far, far more than I trust whichever foreign based vpn company. Especially if they for it for free or cheap.
You people get paid for solving captchas? :o
When my company did this, I started using passwords like monthname+year just to spite the ciso. Nobody is going to remember A complex new password every 2 months. And with all the many different locations the password was used, a password manager was not a useful option.
Because a vpn can monitor all the websites that you visit. Not directly what you're looking at, but definitely where you're looking. Just line your provider can, if you're not using a vpn. But at least with your provider, you have a contract with them - you pay them to transport your data and nothing more. Some very scummy providers aside, that's where it stops.
A free vpn, however, needs to pay for transporting your data somehow. And if you're not paying for it with money, then who/what is?
See also Tom Scott's explanation about vpns, why you probably don't need one, and why he refused their advertisement money.
By that same logic: it costs a couple of cents to burn a dvd or to transfer a few gigabytes, yet games costs $60.
All the commenter above you is saying is don't mix up the cost to develop with the cost to mass produce,
Just like a gun.