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t has been a long quarantine, gentle reader.

But while I’ve been transforming my

towering, mist-shrouded Manhattan home

into a VPN testing space, people have continued

to reach out with their privacy and security

questions. Recently, I received a message from a

Patagonia-based reader with a problem: Their

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location.

From our southerly reader, edited for brevity and

privacy:

“When I go online, websites identify me as

coming from Argentina, but some services will

not respond because of my location. Now, I also

have a website that is hosted by a Swiss provider.

If I have control over my domain in Switzerland,

can I somehow connect my PC to the site and

have all my movements be seen as coming from

Switzerland?”

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bit complicated, but the solution to the overall

problem is very simple: Get a VPN.

Browse the Web From a

World Away With a VPN

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PC Magazine Senior

Software Analyst Max

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Times, International

Science Times,and

The Mary Sue.