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Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

This is one chapter of my "Chrome Extension Workshops" tutorial, see the rest here: https://gist.github.com/caseywatts/8eec8ff974dee9f3b247

Unrelated update: my book is out! Debugging Your Brain is an applied psychology / self-help book

Making Bookmarklets

I'm feeling very clever. I've got this sweet line of javascript that replaces "cloud" with "butt". My mom would LOVE this, but she doesn't computer very well. I'm afraid to show her the Developer Console and have her type/paste this in. But she IS pretty good at bookmarks, she knows just how to click those!

A bookmark normally takes you to a new web page. A bookmarklet is a bookmark that runs javascript on the current page instead of taking you to a new page. To declare that it is a bookmarklet, the "location" it points to starts with javascript:.

	function onOpen() {
	SpreadsheetApp.getUi().createAddonMenu().addItem('Upload', 'upload').addToUi();
	}

	function upload() {
	SpreadsheetApp.getUi().showModalDialog(HtmlService.createHtmlOutput(
	'<form><input type="file" name="file" onchange="var reader = new FileReader(); reader.onloadend = (e) => google.script.run.withSuccessHandler(google.script.host.close).importICS(e.target.result); reader.readAsText(this.parentNode.file.files[0]);"></form>'
	), 'Select .ics file');
	}