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PayPal closed an account of mine after 20 years without explaining anything because I logged in one day while still connected to my VPN.

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We should legitimize using VPN like we legitimized and then adopted e2e encryption.

I'm all for it, but my overall experience so far has been that if something happens to a small percentage of users - like 1% or less - then overall it won't gain traction or matter much. I am interested if this class action gets an support because I will for sure join it out of spite for how poorly they handled the situation and how they kept my money locked up for 6 months.

Depends on which 1% and how good that number is at mobilizing.

I promise you'd hear a ton about anything that only affected trans or gay people, for example, or any issue that only impacted the top 1% of customers based on money spent.

If we found a population with a social microphone in that 1%, then it can gain traction.

Apple iCloud Private Relay is attempting to do that

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