Do You Need A VPN?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨freddy@lemmy.one⁩ to ⁨privacyguides@lemmy.one⁩

https://neat.tube/w/6HDQH1wnTACKFHh2u1CRQ5

We didn’t like the VPN videos out there on the internet - so we made our own! Its now available to watch on PeerTube at the link above!

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IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
To protect against those pesky “hackers” that want to steal your information at public wifi?

Nah. Enable HTTPS-Only mode and VOILA! (Make sure to x out of browsers the moment you see a warning screen)

To post “I HATE [Insert Name of Country Leader] and I hope he/she dies and go to hell!” on a forum?

Hell fucking yes. Especially if you are in an authoritarian country. Use both VPN and Tor, don’t use real names. Even in democratic countries, still use VPN, since power is always shifting. What’s legal today might not be legal tomorrow.

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nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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- Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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).
  
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finley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Everyone should use a VPN always.

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- hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  That's what the VPN provider like you to believe in.
  
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Mohamad20ZX@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Thanks I always regretted getting surfshark for streaming since they scammed me with their 99.00 plan and their YouTube channel is basically an even worse version of Linus Tech Tips

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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Sorry to ask: can you include a summary?

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

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- xylogx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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
  
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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Does Icloud private relay work good enough for non-illegal activities?

I use something different for torrenting obvs.

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