Subj : Which VPN?
To   : Hustler
From : Phigan
Date : Mon Jul 03 2023 08:44 am

  Re: Which VPN?
  By: Hustler to Phigan on Sun Jul 02 2023 01:09 pm

 >  > What's your use case?
 >
 >  I know nothing about VPN other then there are a ton of them to choose from.

What do you actually want it for?

IMO, here are good/valid reasons for using a VPN:

- Using geo-locked services, meaning sites or services that check what country you're in.
- Using torrents or similar file-sharing type services on a network that blocks them (public hotspots sometimes) or simply from a network other than your own.
- The above counts for any specific service where it would be advantageous to present your originating IP as somewhere else (scamming multiple rewards accounts?).

When you use those VPN services, they know what your originating IP is, what your destination IP is, and what kind of traffic you're sending to that destination. It's the same stuff that your ISP would know if you weren't using the VPN. I'm not sure what difference it makes which one of them has that information. You're already paying your ISP, so unless you have some reason not to trust them, why would you go trust some other rando any more than them? The government can get all your traffic upstream regardless of which VPN you use, your connections are easily traceable when the endpoints of the VPN are all known, and you have no idea how much logging that VPN actually does.

Outside of those reasons I mentioned, in America (other countries might have additional reasons or those reasons might be more significant there), I think VPN use gives people a false sense of security.

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