• SendMeYourInk@lemmy.world
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    For whatever they want, it’s just an example of being paranoid and a reason to want to hide your location. Another being your work finding out you’re being an asshole online and then being fired for it, etc.

    For the foreign group, to seem more credible by appearing to be from the target country.

    I’m not arguing that these counter-points I’m suggesting are strong, just that it’s possible however unlikely they may be.

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      It’s also possible that this is all being orchestrated by the lizard cabal (prove me wrong, I dare you) but hopefully we can agree that our time is going to be much better spent discussing things that are actually likely instead of what the lizard pope might be planning next.

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        I can’t tell if you think I’m a troll or not but that’s why I genuinely asked the question, VPN usage today seems very common so it seems actually likely.

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          No the troll kingdom has been at war with the lizard cabal for centuries, I’m very careful to never confuse the two groups.

          Seriously though I don’t think you’re trolling, I just think this question is kinda dumb. While there are reasons to use a VPN yes, you have yet to present a reason for why a huge number of legit US-based maga-influencer VPN users would want to set their location to something other than the US instead of just a US node, which would be both faster and less suspicious.