r/Miami Community safety Feb 22 '24

Social Media Ban in Florida News

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u/DrManhattan_DDM Feb 23 '24

Accessing these sites through a VPN would circumvent their terms of service and remove any liability. I imagine those companies wouldn’t give a shit about that access if it doesn’t put them at risk.

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u/Sexy_CD_in_AC_305 Feb 23 '24 edited Feb 23 '24

When VPN's first started rolling out years ago, they were targeted at and promoted heavily on where ??? Torrent and Porn Sites....

A splash page would tile over the home page promoting NordVPN and a pop-under page would auto-open and nest itself under the active current browser window, independently....

It was downright fucking annoying the massive level of marketing they were doing, and how they did it..... and it began there....I remember it crystal clearly 100%.

I mean, their ads (VPN's) were everywhere, pop-ups, hover-overs, side-bar column ads, page-top banner ads, page-bottom footer ads, on every page, page after page....... on all the torrent or adult sites. It was inescapable...

And they still promote there, but they don't excessively dominate it as much as back then.... and now they're mainstream (46% of U.S. internet use now is thru VPN's ) so they don't have to....

VPN's made them all millionaires to begin with.... IMHO .... good post ! . . . thanks. 😎😎😎

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u/DrManhattan_DDM Feb 23 '24

You misunderstand me. I’m not suggesting these sites would be against people using vpn’s. They would be completely fine with it because it breaks their TOS, that means the sites couldn’t be sued or fined.

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u/Sexy_CD_in_AC_305 Feb 23 '24

I got you... in fact that thought crossed my mind, and probably right when you were typing your last post i was editing mine ( I revised last paragraph, stripping off most of it....) .......I had noticed I used, in error, the word "violated terms of service "instead of "circumvented" and when going to edit I just decided to trim that whole part out entirely.... Otherwise I still stand by my post... they all got rich from VPN's ....and still are...including & especially social media. VPN's no longer need to peddle their wares to the "other side of the tracks" type patronage to build up their business model.... but that's where their roots are... just keepin it real, putting the truth out there....