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
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
I thought the ‘security’ angle was just a smokescreen anyway. Isn’t it actually for accessing region-locked media?
It’s for torrents.
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
Eh, the problem is, most of these big vpn providers end points are well known by most isp’s.
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.
…it’s fer the torrents. I love you, VPN.
I use my VPN on public networks for additional security
Nowadays everything is encrypted by default. You don’t get additional security with a VPN.
Not everything is. HTTP and unencrypted SNI are still around.
Name a popular service that isn’t encrypted but using it might expose you in a legitimate way.
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.
And HTTPS does that. It’s encrypted.
Yes but I use more than web traffic stuff on my phone.
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.
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.
I think it keeps your isp from knowing what websites you’re going to?