DNS ), and ISP "middleboxes" have been historically the biggest impediment in rolling out new features. There have been multiple instances of this in the past and ongoing (e.g. And the idea that these so called ‘VPN’ services somehow improve your security and privacy on the internet is laughable.Īctually, they do: Neither your ISP nor the government (assuming the VPN provider is in a "hostile" jurisdiction) can intercept, analyze or modify your Internet traffic when you are using a VPN to mask your Internet access. (Which is why most privacy experts, were you to tell them you were sufficiently paranoid, would have you fire up a pfSense and link it permanently to a VPN service and then run a separate brand of VPN software on whatever device, so that you have two layers going through two companies.) So yeah, it's a kinda a big deal if it leaks. For a small subset of people it's literally a tool that protects their life.
But they are very much an important tool. No, they are not a panacea - much like the security universe, the privacy universe requires lots of other active and passive behavioral and technological changes to properly lock things down to whatever standard you require for your threat model. Thing is, if you ping experts in the privacy field (like Mike Bazzell, the former FBI OSINT guy who billionaires and celebs hire to keep their personal info off the internet), they will all say the VPNs are a very important tool to create a layer of privacy between you and the site you are visiting and also a good tool to prevent said sites from easily profiling you. It's wild to hear anyone say that "There is no point to them." There are many many very valuable uses for VPNs some that offer privacy/security benefits and some that are just plain useful. VPNs don't solve every problem, but they're a powerful tool to keep in your tookbox. VPNs provide a great way to cycle through IPs. Allows you to connect to sites and services that cannot connect back to you once you've disconnected: A lot of people, even those with dynamic IPs, keep their address for months or years at a time. Limit the amount of activity linked by trackers: Visiting certain sites only from different IPs/browsers will help keep logs of that traffic isolated from the logs of your other browsing.
Access content intended for those in other regions: Many sites and services only show certain content to people who enter the internet from specific places. Avoid ISP tracking: Your ISP should see only traffic to and from the VPN. There are several good reasons to use VPNs to get a different on-ramp to the otherwise untrusted internet. All they do is let you get onto the public, untrusted, internet through a different on-ramp.
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