Consumer Reports tests VPNs... but won't allow you to log in while using one.
Consumer Reports tests VPNs... but won't allow you to log in while using one.
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Works for me
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I'm guessing you're not logged in. The landing page works, but the members area, where the full ratings are, will show the above screen when I'm on VPN.
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Nice to see Firefox in the wild 🙃
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We're on lemmy/kbin, Firefox and its forks are probably the most common browser here.
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I knew this comment was coming. :) FF Crew Represent!
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52 tabs?!
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After 99 you just get a ♾️ symbol
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On Chromium-based browsers, after 99, you get ":D".
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That's right, Chrome had the smiley before I deleted it from my phone. FF uses the infinity sign. Thanks for catching that.
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That's pretty good for me. Usually I have the smiley face and just mass delete my tabs every time I flash my device.
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Dunno about op, but for me: various self-hosted interfaces, info for projects in-progress (easily 5-10/project), a few different forums I frequent, interesting stuff I don't have time for now but will return to when I do.
Bookmarks get lost/forgotten as I don't make a point to view them to remember them. Open tabs remind me of their contents every time I switch tabs so I'm much morr likely to return to them. I'm also lazy and don't want to re-open the same sites I frequent nearly daily.
Currently only have 21 open, but that's been much larger.
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- Working fine for me!
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I also had this issue. At least tell me why you are blocking me!
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Couldn't there be some alternative like having VPNs provide a standardized API for websites to report bots from using anonymized data take from the HTTP requests? Then the VPN can block the user after reviewing the usage data they have.
That would require the VPN service to keep track of users' usage and be able to match traffic to user, which most (or most of the big ones at least) very specifically, very on purpose, explicitly say they don't do, which would be really bad for them if it turned out to be false.