VPN News: How A Virtual Private Network Can Help You Save Money
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It is a well-known fact that the use of a VPN comes with
numerous advantages as regards protection from hackers and the
provision of maximum privacy. The web is such a vast space
that one cannot specifically tell who is looking at their
online activities.
To stop unwanted eyes from prying into one's online
activities, a VPN is a major necessity. These unwanted eyes
range from a hacker to the different authorities and one's
ISP. Apart from the benefits of improved security and privacy,
with a VPN one can also enjoy the best prices of several
commodities, and we will be highlighting how you can save
money with a VPN in this article.
Online shopping is a favorite alternative for a lot of
internet users. Since with a simple click of a mouse or touch
of one's device a product can be ordered, the majority of
shoppers are increasingly leaning towards online shopping. The
ease of buying products and comparing prices that are achieved
by shopping online has made a lot of shoppers prefer online
shopping.
Online shopping: the average shopper's preferred
option.
The commodities that are thus bought online include fashion
items, electronics, groceries and beauty products. Online
shopping has also been encouraged by the availability of
discounts and other forms of offers when items are bought
online than offline and the delivery options that are readily
available. Why leave your house when you can make the order,
pay for the order and get the item without leaving the house.
Almost every business thus has an online option for making
payments or a full-fledged online shop. Retail businesses are
even run fully online.
How VPN can save you some money.
Because of the preference of buyers for online methods of
transactions, businesses have also devised means of making the
most of this preference with their pricing. The information
which a user's device gives while they search for a product
can be used by a seller to modify the price of a
commodity.
Also, the price of certain commodities differs according to
the location of the buyer. The location of the buyer can be
detected from information which the device gives off such as
the IP address. A VPN, because of the encryption and privacy which it offers
users, prevents exploitation by these systems which businesses
and organizations have adopted in modifying the prices of
their products.
One of such systems is the use of the cookies from an
intending buyer's browser. This method is applied to products
and services such as car rental services, flight tickets, and
hotel bookings. If an intending buyer had visited a site
previously, when they come back to check for the same product,
the price will be higher, at least higher enough to create a
the sense of urgency that will inspire the intending buyer to
decide immediately on getting the product.
Let's say a person checks a certain website for flight tickets
and decided to consider other options or puts off making a
the decision immediately, when they come back to that website, the
price will be more expensive. This tactic will give the buyer
the impression that if they leave the product and come back
again, the price will be higher, and they get to buy the
product immediately.
To avoid being exploited by this tactic as a returning visitor
to a website, one can use a VPN which encrypts the information
their device gave away during previous visits. That way, every
visit is the first visit, and the buyer gets to save money
with a VPN every time.
Although one can still go with the option of clearing their
cookies every time they visit a website from which they might
make a purchase, a VPN is a better option to go with as their
traffic data will always stay encrypted.
Another way, a VPN helps with saving money is by allowing
users
to change locations and buy products at locations where
they are the cheapest. VPN servers are usually situated in
different locations, at least 500 for a lot of VPNs, and users
and connect to any of these VPN servers and access websites
like they are actually in those locations.
Since it has been established that the products of certain
products and services vary according to location, with a VPN,
one can switch between locations, find the location with the
cheapest price, and make the purchase from that location.
With software, for example, users in certain countries pay way
more for a product than other users in other countries. The same
applies to car rental fees. From countries like the US, prices
are way pricier than one would get in a country like
India.
A VPN is a tool that is handy for bypassing the tricks used by
businesses and organizations to change prices based on the
user's data. You could just
give a VPN a try and
see how much you will be able to save on expenses, we are sure
you will be amazed.
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Published: 24th Mar 2023 06:55:26 By: Consumer Reports
Consumer Video: Do You Need a Mattress Topper? | Consumer Reports
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Published: 23rd Mar 2023 07:29:55 By: Consumer Reports
Consumer Video: 5 Reasons to Consider a Certified Pre-Owned Car | Consumer Reports
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If you're shopping for a car, and want to avoid the potential problems of a used vehicle and the expense of buying something brand new, a certified pre-owned vehicle could be your best bet. We explain what a certified pre-owned (or CPO) car is, and using data from CR's reliability and owner satisfaction surveys, we show why it might hit the sweet spot for price and reliability for many buyers looking for a good deal on their next vehicle.
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Published: 23rd Mar 2023 02:00:31 By: Consumer Reports
Consumer Video: 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV | Talking Cars #404
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Built on the same platform as its sedan sibling, the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV could be considered the default flagship vehicle for Mercedes, offering S-Class levels of luxury with the utility of a 3-row family hauler, wrapped in a fully electric package. But while trying to serve so many different buyers, does it end up not doing any job particularly well? We purchased a EQS450 4Matic EV for our test program, and share our first impression of its range, infotainment system, the usability of the third row, and how it compares to other EV SUVs like the Tesla Model X and BMW iX. We also discuss what happens to a car's telematics and infotainment systems when 3G and 4G service is shut down by wireless carriers.
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0:00 - Intro
0:37 - 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQS450 SUV
2:38 - First Impressions
5:46 - Range/charge times
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10:00 - Steering wheel controls
11:18 - Third-row seat
14:43 - EV characteristics
18:49 - Interior screens
20:00 - Who is this vehicle for?
22:15 - Fit and finish
23:24 - Question: What will happen to vehicles with 4G connected services when 5G takes over?
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LINKS:
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How Well Do Tesla Superchargers Work for Non-Tesla EVs?: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/ev-chargers/how-well-do-tesla-superchargers-work-for-non-tesla-evs-a4713673565/
CR’s Hybrid & EV Guide: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/
Will an Electric Car Save You Money?: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/will-an-electric-car-save-you-money-a9436870083/
Electric Cars 101: The Answers to All Your EV Questions: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/electric-cars-101-the-answers-to-all-your-ev-questions-a7130554728/
How to Find All the Available Electric Car Incentives: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/how-to-find-all-the-available-electric-car-incentives-a5786754228/
How to Decide If a Hybrid, Plug-In Hybrid, or Fully Electric Car Is Right for You: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/how-to-decide-if-a-hybrid-plug-in-hybrid-or-fully-electric-c-a6216376327/
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Published: 22nd Mar 2023 04:00:40 By: Consumer Reports
Consumer Video: How Adaptive Cruise Control Works | Consumer Reports
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Adaptive cruise control is a convenient and critical part of a vehicle's advanced driver assistance system. Using cars from CR's test fleet, we explain how ACC systems work, how they are different from traditional cruise control, and why they play an important role in effective active driver monitoring systems.
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Published: 20th Mar 2023 10:00:21 By: Consumer Reports
Car Video: Updating the Family Car – The Cayenne and the Alts | Everyday Driver
The 2010 Porsche Cayenne has served family duty in Todd’s house for eight years, and it is time to find a replacement. There are lots of options, and lots of debate to find the new family SUV. The result has a few surprises but continues the story that’s come before. This is the first of a new long-term series and the adventures have already begun. Thanks for watching
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00:00 – 2:41 – The search parameters
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3:46 – 6:37 All the ways this is better
6:37 – 8:49 Power and Performance features and upgrades
8:49 - 11:13 New Experiences and Nasty Surprises
11:13 – 13:54 Comfort or Dynamics
13:54 – What could possibly go wrong?
#Porsche #Cayenne #Family #SUV
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Published: 23rd Mar 2023 08:56:39 By: EverydayDriver
Car Video: Did it for Keychains! - Four Road Trips worth of memories #shorts
We did four huge road trips in our Cars of the Past, racking up over 10,000 miles in every direction of the compass. And Paul decided it didn't count unless we had keychain to help us remember.
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Published: 21st Mar 2023 07:52:36 By: EverydayDriver
Our road trip south got Todd thinking about conspiracies, how hard they are to get away from, and how Alien encounters would change the show.
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Published: 12th Mar 2023 09:30:00 By: EverydayDriver
Car Video: Where Aliens Land - Paul road trips through Roswell #shorts
During the last of our Four Points road trip series, we drove through Roswell NM and wondered about alien encounters. Here's an extended extra clip from the film where Paul ponders why Roswell was the choice.
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Published: 10th Mar 2023 09:00:01 By: EverydayDriver
Car Video: Aliens and Texas’ Best Roads – Road Trip South – Cars of the Past | Everyday Driver
When we bought a Porsche 928 and Nissan 300zx, we a road trip in every direction. We’re finally headed South, to Texas, with aliens on our mind and sights and great roads to see along the way. Join for the last in our Cars of the Past road trip series. Utah, Four Corners, Alien sights in New Mexico, and great road and tracks in Texas. Plus, costumes, stupidity, and even a few deep thoughts. Plus a look back at what this series has meant to us.
00:00 – 1:37 Here we go again
1:37 – 2:41 Why the Z had problems last time
2:41 – 3:50 Introducing the 928 Outlaw
3:50 – 4:22 Finally going South
4:22 – 5:35 Buying and Selling, Updates and Interventions
5:35 – 13:16 Reviewing each other’s cars
13:16 – 18:02 New Roads, Four Corners and a Ship
18:02 – 21:27 Big Dishes and Alien Contact
21:27 – 28:03 Drive through Nuclear Testing
28:03 – 31:17 Roswell and Little Green Men
31:17 – 35:18 West Texas Race Trucks
35:18 – 41:15 Twisted Sisters
41:15 – 42:35 Investigating stuff in fields
42:35 – 44:52 – The Viral Video of Gas Stations
44:52 – 54:49 Acting Like Race cars
54:49 – The end is only the beginning
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Published: 9th Mar 2023 08:52:25 By: EverydayDriver
Product Review Video: Apple Reportedly Demos AR/VR Headset to Top Executives
Apple's AR/VR device might be unveiled to the public soon, according to Bloomberg.
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Published: 27th Mar 2023 07:00:10 By: CNET
Product Review Video: Adding 'X-Ray Vision' to Microsoft's HoloLens
A team of researchers at MIT have added a special antenna and a custom application to Microsoft's HoloLens that allows the wearer to locate desired objects behind walls, inside boxes or otherwise beyond their line of sight.
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Published: 26th Mar 2023 03:00:37 By: CNET
Product Review Video: I Tried VR Therapy. Here's What It Was Like
I worked with a therapist to try out virtual reality software designed to address phobias and anxiety.
00:00 Intro
00:12 What is exposure therapy
01:03 Why I tried VR therapy
01:59 Virtual therapy environments
03:43 Mindfulness environments
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Published: 26th Mar 2023 12:00:25 By: CNET
Product Review Video: Change This iPhone Setting to Type With One Hand #shorts
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Published: 24th Mar 2023 07:00:22 By: CNET
Product Review Video: Why Apple’s VR Launch at WWDC Matters
Apple is rumored to reveal a VR headset at WWDC. CNET’s Bridget Carey and Scott Stein look at the challenges of launching a VR product now, and how Apple may approach it at the annual developers conference.
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0:54 Why Debut VR Headset at WWDC?
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Published: 24th Mar 2023 12:00:28 By: CNET
FTC Video: Online Romance Imposter Scams - Short | Federal Trade Commission
Imposters promise romance to users of online dating sites to trick them into sending money. Learn more about online romance imposter scams at https://www.ftc.gov/imposters
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Transcript:
[MUSIC PLAYING] Looking for love in all the right places like popular dating sites, mobile apps, and social networking sites? Ron seems like a perfect match for you. He's thoughtful and says he can't live without you.
He says he's from the US but works out of the country. And he says he wants to visit, but says he can't afford it. He asks you to send him money. Last month, it was medical for his sick aunt. This month, he needs money to fix this car. Next month, who knows.
Ron wants your money. Don't send it. The person pretending to be Ron is a scammer. He'll tell you anything to get you to wire cash right away. He'll never run out of excuses.
If an online love interests asks you for money, walk away no matter how compelling story.
Report scams at FTC.gov/impostors.
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Published: 24th Mar 2023 12:00:33 By: FTCvideos
FTC Video: Fraud Affects Every Community: Imposter Scams (Spanish with English subtitles) - Updated
The first-person story of a woman who was harassed by scammers impersonating court officials and lawyers, who tried to coerce her into paying hundreds of dollars for a debt she didn’t owe.
Aprenda más sobre cómo evitar estafas http://www.consumidor.ftc.gov/estafas
Learn more about avoiding scams http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/scams
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Transcript:
Recibí una llamada, en la cual me decían
que yo tenía una demanda por 4 mil dolares. Si yo no pagaba eso, me iban a mandar
con Inmigración, y que, bueno, eso iba a ser catastrófico. Pues yo me asusté mucho. Me asusté tanto que,
le digo, casi corría yo a la tienda de la esquina a comprar el money order y ya quería que
estuviera la gente por el money order y que se fuera.
Cuando yo platiqué con mi hijo él inmediatamente me dijo:
sabes qué mamá, esto no es real. Pues, empecé a buscar el número en la
computadora. El mismo número que le estaba marcando a mi mamá tenía muchas
quejas, y de hecho una de las quejas era casi idéntica. Una estafa de impostor es cuando una persona
le dice que tiene una afiliación, o que es incluso el Gobierno. Le dice que tiene una deuda
pendiente y que tiene que pagar cierto dinero y normalmente es un sentido de urgencia,
es "páguelo ya, inmediatamente." A la señora Juárez, igual que a otras personas,
la convencen con amenazas, diciéndole que si no pagan la deuda van a ser llevados a
Corte, o pueden ser encarcelados. Yo estoy agradecida, gracias a Dios que
tenía a mi lado, en primer lugar para exteriorizar lo que me estaba pasando,
compartirlo con mi hijo y con mi esposo. Me sentí muy apoyada, muy apoyada
simplemente al exteriorizarlo, al compartirlo. Nosotros presentamos una demanda contra
la empresa, y después de toda la evidencia que pudimos juntar gracias a las declaraciones
de personas como la señora Juárez, el juez determinó que sí, la empresa estaba
involucrada en fraude al consumidor y la empresa fue cerrada permanentemente. A mí me da mucha tristeza que personas
se presten para este tipo de estafas. Les aconsejo que platiquen esto con personas
que consideren ellos que pueden estar un poco más informadas. Si usted recibe una llamada de alguien que
no conoce, y le piden que envíe dinero ya sea por una tarjeta pre-pagada,
con un giro postal o en efectivo, no lo haga.
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Published: 23rd Mar 2023 03:00:00 By: FTCvideos
FTC Video: IRS Imposter Scams - Short | Federal Trade Commission
How to spot scammers who pretend to be IRS officials to get you to send them money.
Learn more about IRS imposter scams at https://www.ftc.gov/imposters
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Transcript:
Scam artists are pretending to be IRS officials to get your money. They'll call, email, or text you claiming you owe back taxes or there's a problem with your tax return. They even rig caller ID to make their call look official. They play on your fears. They threatened to take your driver's license or sue, arrest, or deport you. They want you to pay, fast.
What's the truth? The truth is the IRS's first contact with you will always be a letter in the mail. It's not a phone call, email, or text message. They won't insist that you pay with a prepaid debit card, a wire transfers, or cashier's check. Now you know. Has an IRS impostor contacted you? Report it at FTC.gov/impostors.
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Published: 23rd Mar 2023 12:00:22 By: FTCvideos
FTC Video: Family Emergency Imposter Scams - Short | Federal Trade Commission
Imposters claim to be friends or family in distress to trick consumers into wiring money. Learn more about family emergency imposter scams at https://www.ftc.gov/imposters
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Transcript:
Grandad, it's me-- an accident in Mexico-- I'm in jail.
Jimmy, is that you?
Yeah, it's Jimmy.
I need money for bail right now.
In jail?
You need to send money right now.
Please don't tell anyone.
Scammers are tricky and can pretend to be anybody in any situation.
They seem like the real deal.
They play on your fears.
The goal-- to get you to act fast.
Check out if they really are who they say they are, even if they sound like a loved one.
Heard from an impostor?
Report it at ftc.gov/imposters.
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Published: 21st Mar 2023 06:34:07 By: FTCvideos
FTC Video: Tech Support Imposter Scams - Short | Federal Trade Commission
Callers impersonate legitimate technical support companies to fool computer users into handing over their personal information or sending money. Learn more about tech support imposter scams at https://www.ftc.gov/imposters
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Transcript:
Scammers pose as big name companies.
They call or send pop up messages to scare you about the security of your computer.
We've gotten warnings of viruses in your area.
Your computer has been affected.
First, download this software so I can delete the dangerous programs.
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