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yjftsjthsd-h on April 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and P...

I'm surprised that commercial vpns don't offer an ad blocking option; from their perspective, it's not only a great feature to market, but it reduces their bandwidth costs.

ridgewell on April 25, 2019 [–]

To be perfectly fair, a good chunk of VPN providers primarily see P2P/bulk downloading and streaming traffic.

Ordinary web browsing probably isn't a significant part of VPN traffic when you think about it.

Agree it would reduce bandwidth costs, but there's also a cost to maintaining such infrastructure.

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