Commercial Virtual Private Networks are a way of extending the end of your network to exit somewhere else in the world. This can have substantial privacy benefits, but not all VPNs are created equa...

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  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Sorry to ask: can you include a summary?

    I don’t often get time to watch videos, even short ones.

    • xylogx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      A VPN transfers trust from the ISP to a VPN provider

      Encrypted DNS does not stop ISPs from seeing the ip addresses of the websites you visit

      For anonymity use TOR

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I was using a vpn for everything. It was slow, it took forever to connect, I was having issues with websites I have to use for my business blocking them.

    It was great if I wanted to look at a geo locked website, or video. It worked when I sailed the high seas (theoretically, as no one has ever said otherwise to me).

    For every day use it ended up being such a pain I stopped connecting to mine unless I needed it.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I literally have two machines running on always on VPNs, one my personal PC and another a home server were a torrent service is running, and have no such problems.

      I think maybe the mistake you made was spending most of the time with it OFF and then turning it ON once in a while, whilst mine just goes ON as soon as I boot my machine and stays on.

      Granted, I’m not using it for getting around geo-locked websites, I’m using it for having a bit more privacy and for safety when sailing the high seas so once in a while I have the opposite problem (that I’m blocked from accessing sites in my own country because the connections appear to be coming from a different country).

  • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Does Icloud private relay work good enough for non-illegal activities?

    I use something different for torrenting obvs.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That is idiotic.

      VPNs absolutely have their places.

      But if you don’t trust your ISP, why would you trust your VPN service with all your internet data?

        • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          2 months ago

          That is a fair answer.

          Though I would hesitate to use your trust in your own ISP and VPN as a blanket statement for trust with regards to other’s setup