Weekend 31st January 2026

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1. micknotmike says:

   January 31, 2026 at 4:13 am

   Good morning!
   Here’s a question for the technical bods amongst us. I’ve got my system running nicely on “Malware Bytes” VPN, and although it still looks like Derbyshire outside, apparently I’m in Sweden. Years ago, the only reason I could have thought of for a VPN would be to look at naked ladies. Now, like a lot of people, I fear saying “too many immigrants” will land me at least one death sentence.

   Get to the point, Mick. Question is :- If the bbc succeed in annexing youtube, will I still be able to browse it, and similar sites without disruption if I’m now a Scandinavian?

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   • JohnC says:

     January 31, 2026 at 5:07 am

     I’ve recently done the same thing for the same reason mick.

     Have a read of this which explains what a VPN does and does not do:

     https://us.norton.com/blog/vpn/can-you-be-tracked-with-a-vpn

     One tip: check your browsing IP really is being changed by going here:

     https://www.myip.com/

     I discovered mine was not because the Surfshark chrome plugin overrides the setting in the desktop app. I need to set it via the chrome plugin. I also changed the chrome default search engine to Duck Duck Go and everything is much better now.

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