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Corey, I have to remind you that the Deeper Connect devices were sold as being an in-line plug-in security device that anyone could use to immidiately increase their internet security. Your advertisments included a video showing exactly this, giving a 'thumbs up' at the end of the sequence. However, connecting a Deeper Connect device - without attention to some quite detailed configuration away from the Smart mode default - does leave the user to the hazards I have described and which you do not refute.
In addition, I backed this device as a VPN substitute - which it was clearly positioned by your initial description to backers. The cryptocurrency mining was definitely not the described focus and your subsequent argument for it going hand-in-hand with the aggregation of a fast network benefitting non-mining users seems very much after-the-fact.
I find it quite distessing how tone-deaf your answer is in this thread, where you have answered the question you wish were asked with the answers you were prepared to give. I am astonished you found the temerity within yourself to post three links to mining topics that were irrelevant in this discussion.
Please look at the title of this thread, which is - for your convenience - 'Advice on Settings for Browsing Anonyimity and Security' and provide answers that starts like these:
"For Deeper Connect device users wishing to obtain the best possible Browsing Anonymity and Security through use of their devices, the following configuration is recommended ..."
"Users should note that this configuration affects connection performance in the following ways: ...
"Configuration in the specified manner provides these protections: ...
"Configuration in the specified manner does not provide protection from: ...
What I am asking for should not be hard. Until then, I stand by my earlier unrefuted assertion that no-one should use a Deeper Connect device on their network, at all.
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