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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Nice try NSA

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A) as others have pointed out this is a rather shit video

B) I fucking hate the "and nor should you" trend. Fuck off with what I should or shouldn't do, just give me the facts and I'll decide for myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I don't like the way it sounds, but I appreciate the honesty. Videos like this are always prescriptive, even if they present themselves as if they are a personal, "just for my needs" thing.

By the way, do you remember a video and Medium article posted by someone who was trying to convince us that big companies like Google aren't really privacy invasive?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

, said the glowing figure confidently, while blinking hard and rubbing his nose

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Clickbait YouTuber is clickbait...

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/vpn-overview/

Should I use a VPN?

Yes, almost certainly. A VPN has many advantages, including:

  1. Hiding your traffic from only your Internet Service Provider.
  1. Hiding your downloads (such as torrents) from your ISP and anti-piracy organizations.
  1. Hiding your IP from third-party websites and services, helping you blend in and preventing IP based tracking.
  1. Allowing you to bypass geo-restrictions on certain content.

VPNs can provide some of the same benefits Tor provides, such as hiding your IP from the websites you visit and geographically shifting your network traffic, and good VPN providers will not cooperate with e.g. legal authorities from oppressive regimes, especially if you choose a VPN provider outside your own jurisdiction.

VPNs cannot encrypt data outside the connection between your device and the VPN server. VPN providers can also see and modify your traffic the same way your ISP could, so there is still a level of trust you are placing in them. And there is no way to verify a VPN provider's "no logging" policies in any way.

On a personal note, the common argument is VPN providers could be recording your traffic. But if you know for certain your ISP is recording your traffic and selling your data, which is most commercial ISPs in the West, then a VPN provider is a strict improvement. They may not be, but they're not guaranteed to be. And your ISP is guaranteed to be.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

(The NSA think they're slick)

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