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10 common dangers VPNs won't protect you from online - and how to avoid them
Yuliya Taba/Getty ImagesVPNs are a hot topic among ZDNET readers. Many of you use VPNs to protect your communications, protect your privacy or location, or to location-shift your apparent physical address (which may or may not violate various sites…