• ghost_laptop
    91·
    3 years ago

    Lol, you get real advice from an expert and people give so many down votes.

    • IngrownMink4
      7·
      3 years ago

      Although I agree with you that the author knows what he is talking about, be careful about using ad verecundiam fallacies :')

    • liminal
      4·
      3 years ago

      “But muh youtuber-shilled privacy panacea!”

      • ghost_laptop
        22·
        3 years ago

        dIdD V knoU thAt XXPRzz BPN can netfliX othR kaUNTRY???

        • Fisch
          2·
          3 years ago

          Isn’t that the thing they’re actually useful for?

          • pinknoise
            32·
            3 years ago

            Yes, thats why I use FnordVPN, if you sign up now with my coupon code you can save 5% for a 25-year plan!

          • tmpod@lemmy.ptM
            0·
            3 years ago

            And hiding which sites you browse from your ISP. And also with torrents ig.

            • Fisch
              2·
              3 years ago

              But the VPN provider can see it and they could just do the same thing your ISP would have done

  • SudoDnfDashY
    3·
    3 years ago

    I personally self-host OpenVPN on a Rasberry Pi 4, but Tor is really the best. I feel like a VPN can only really protect your privacy when it is 100% under your control.

    • seahorse
      3·
      3 years ago

      I do too, but it’s on my home network, so wouldn’t my ISP still know what sites I’m going to?

  • hgc@lemmy.odium.pro
    2·
    3 years ago

    Does my VPN provider have my ISP subscriber data and home address? Can they be socially engineered into giving out this data that they don’t have?

  • Lynda
    32·
    3 years ago

    Checkout dVPN’s (distributed VPN’s).