Perfect is the enemy of good, isn’t it…
Comment on You probably don't need a VPN
CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This article is basically summed up: “VPNs don’t completely eliminate your digital footprint, so don’t use them unless you need to accomplish these specific things.”
It seems pretty disingenuous to discourage people from taking steps to protect their privacy in this way. It may not be sponsored, but it’s still bullshit.
LWD@lemm.ee 1 year ago
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 1 year ago
They are the specific thing that I do while using the internet too.
But you’re right that any use of the internet could use any increase towards privacy.
corbin@infosec.pub 1 year ago
VPNs don’t really protect your privacy though, except in cases where you’ve already eliminated other means of tracking (e.g. fresh incognito browser tab + VPN). Every website and service I use still has a record of my activity if I’m logged in, advertiser networks have other means of tracking you, etc.
The issue is buying a VPN and thinking that’s the end of it.
xenspidey@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
It protects your ip address, and your ISP from knowing what you’re doing. It also protects you on public wifi from nefarious actors. VPN’s aren’t meant to protect you from Google advertising while checking your Gmail account…
corbin@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Are there attack vectors through public Wi-Fi in recent history? Now that most sites and services are HTTPS there’s nothing they can do except do network-level blocks.
grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unless they intercept the handshake as a proxy and have access to everything after that. The average Starbucks employee is not doing this.
An Israeli spy tracking down an arms dealer might figure out how to do this at a hotel the target was using, but the arms dealer would know that.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 year ago
They certainly increase your privacy.
Nothing “protects”, that’s an absolute. Everything we do are steps toward increasing privacy.