The situation had changed this month locally but I can't tell which local bill that caused the change here although I already updated my online accounts. What we can talk is the other local bill that is set to ban the usage of VPN. For me, I don't give a crap about VPN other than knowing our reason for using it for accessing the corporate/school network which may be handy to say the least although the connectivity is not that great that way no matter which purpose you have for VPN. What makes VPN stink however is the fact that people use it to bypass geo-restrictions so that they are able to watch foreign contents which are not accessible normally. It basically falsifies the information about which country you're from with the change of the country and IP address origin. It fools the foreign service into thinking that you're from the other country that way. When it comes to app stores/gaming marketplaces, why the hell would I want to falsify shit like that so that I could buy something from foreign stores? It's not like you'll be in trouble like the shopkeepers told me that I wouldn't for buying something from foreign marketplaces but the thing is, it's still wrong to falsify stuffs like that. I don't buy apps, games, music, movies or even cartoons from online foreign digital marketplaces/stores like that with the false account and in fact, I even recently started to use the new E-Amusement account with 100% true personal information with the country I actually live in chosen in the Country List although my nickname there is already outdated to say the list. And I already linked my current E-Amusement pass to that new account as well, leaving the old E-Amusement account to be abandoned. This might be due to the fact that the service was updated to include and support the full complete Country List but it could mean that I'm missing some features like the Paseli for instance.
And better yet, why would MyRepublic or whatever the fourth local ISP was offer you the free-trial VPN service in the first place? If the app, game, music, movie, drama, cartoon or anything else you want is available in the local digital store, you could have bought it there, NOT bypass geo-restriction or falsify country information just to buy the same stuffs from foreign digital store. And if you obtained an app from the Japanese app store although you're not from Japan, I can say that it is not quite genuine if you ask and you already took a risk that way.
In case some popular services which are accessible normally worldwide are blocked in some countries over some situations, this is where bypassing some blockage should be a last resort option. However, such solutions/workarounds are not likely to last long. We had seen previous news of things happening like that.
What about sideloading apps then? Unfortunately, this is more or less a different story and already opens both positive and negative doors. One negative door is piracy in which people obtain those apps the other way. One positive door is that certain official websites of those games have the page where you can download the app file to use on your mobile device so that VPN isn't needed completely. It may be genuine that way although the disadvantage is that you may have to use credit/debit cards for in-app purchases.
So if you want to use VPN for the sake of privacy, think again as the performance isn't that great and no makers of secure web browsers can guarantee the competent performance. On top of that, the ones who come up with the bill that bans the VPN locally may have until sometime in October to make a final decision but I hope that people can still be allowed to use VPN just to access corporate/school network as the only allowance if that's the case. It's a mixed opinion about VPN just like I had the mixed opinion about Tor network technology.
