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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Junk email + VPN, but I've found that most free wifi services like this explicitly try to inhibit the functionality of mobile VPN clients.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The irony being open wifi like this absolutely need a vpn running

[–] netchami 3 points 1 year ago

This is messed up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i'm pretty lucky to have unlimited data included with my phone plan. i would 100% have been hacked by now. public wifi is scary.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can just make up some e-mail as, without internet, you couldn't verify it. Also one of the rare cases where VPN directly improve your privacy.

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