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Selling Your Iris for $50: Banned in 6 Countries, Landing on your Dating App

Scan your eyeball, prove you’re human, get $50 in crypto. Banned or ordered-deleted in half a dozen countries — and now creeping onto Tinder and Zoom. Here’s what you’d actually be trading, and how the opt-in becomes mandatory.

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Does a VPN actually make you anonymous? (No — here’s what it really does)

A VPN moves who’s watching you from your ISP to a company you pay — that’s the whole trick, and it’s useful for the right job. It does not make you a ghost. The honest use cases, the tier ladder, and why the ads lie.

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