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[–] Imgonnatrythis 72 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I dunno man. I'm convinced that pretty much any mention of VPN these days is just an ad for vpns. That's with this article looks like.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you're not wrong that the article kinda sets itself up for the "lookit our recommended VPNs" pitch.

There's no way Microsoft would purposefully disable VPNs from working. I can guarantee that they require VPNs for thousands of roles in the company, let alone breaking it for government agencies that require VPNs, etc.

It is good to know that a specific update can break something ahead of time, though. Then at least you can avoid it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

There's no way Microsoft would purposefully disable VPNs from working

No, but they've done it accidentally before.

One time a few years ago it broke all LT2P VPN's unless you removed a specific KB########.

IIRC, six months later there was still no fix.

I think it's been fixed now, though.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And now a word from our sponsor, Nor-

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Skip 10 seconds. Skip 10 seconds. Skip 10 seconds.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Give up and install SponsorBlock.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But it's NordVPN.com/BigMoney. The ad is the best part of the video.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bounced on my boy’s Raycons to this for hours

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I do hope you were playing an invigorating game of Raid Shadow Legends at the time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

all ad copy is an ad for sponsor block

[–] NGC2346 0 points 7 months ago

Its actually real news