A VPN isn’t going to protect you from malware or trackers. I’m not sure how they can get away with this marketing.

If you want to boost your security focus on your web browser

  • Melllvar@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    I thought the ‘security’ angle was just a smokescreen anyway. Isn’t it actually for accessing region-locked media?

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        1 year ago

        VPNs are great for avoiding the nastygrams that your ISP forwards to you from media companies. They get sent to some company that doesn’t care about US laws instead, and probably laughed at before being deleted

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        1 year ago

        And it’s for the criminals you’re trying to protect from. Worked IT for a while and a lot of attacks come from behind these popular VPN services now and they do nothing to help stop the attacks. Wouldn’t be surprise to find out these major services are funded by other governments to snoop on other countries at this point.

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            1 year ago

            Name a popular service that isn’t encrypted but using it might expose you in a legitimate way.

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          1 year ago

          Well, not really with these, per se. My own VPN, Wireguard, routes back through my pihole service to double down on it’s filtering. For the most, I’m not trying to obfuscate my ip. If I wanted to do that I’d use tor or something. I just don’t want my traffic to be easily snooped on when I’m connected to wifi that isn’t mine.

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      Well, if you access things on the internet you could be sued for, your IP will not appear in the logs of your ISP or the webserver you connected to.

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        1 year ago

        Sure. But they can’t advertise on that point. So they claim it’s for malware and tracking protection even though that makes no sense.