# Why is VPN so heavily advertised on YouTube?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 19, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vpn-so-heavily-advertised-on-youtube/994845 "2023-12-19T22:20:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vpn-so-heavily-advertised-on-youtube/994845/21 "2023-12-21T16:04:57Z")

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For what it’s worth, you can enable a VPN with one click on Opera.

And I think Mozilla has one available for Firefox, though I’m not sure if it’s free.

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vpn-so-heavily-advertised-on-youtube/994845/22 "2023-12-21T16:09:02Z")

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I’ve never seen one on Firefox, but my antivirus software comes with one, and it asks me if I want to enable it if I’m in a place with no wifi passwords or even in one with a weak wifi password.

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vpn-so-heavily-advertised-on-youtube/994845/23 "2023-12-23T05:45:41Z")

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> [@xtenkfarpl](#):
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> For what it’s worth, you can enable a VPN with one click on Opera.

Is there a version that works with Macs?

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**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-vpn-so-heavily-advertised-on-youtube/994845/24 "2023-12-23T12:33:49Z")

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> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#):
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> Is there a version that works with Macs?

I’m on Windows, but their web page seems to indicate that a Mac version is available.

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