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antoko

Great job on wild speculation HN!

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=VPN&geo=US&d...

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That's 2011.

that's a 2 year timeline jan2011-jan2013 showing clearly that this latest "spike" isn't anything of the sort.

EDIT my apologies, I was supposed to link this

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=VPN&geo=US&d...

There actually is a decided uptick in vpn activity if you expand the date selection correctly. It is a decided uptick; the highest weekly search volume in the past 2 years.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=VPN&geo=US&d...

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