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!
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.
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
Do you need VPN ? Yes/No.
- Yes, if you live in first or second world country which government monitor every movement from citizens
- Yes, if your country always became target from cyber attack or most of your citizen country is hacker
- Yes, if your country control & censors the internet or you just wanna access other region locked website
- No, if you live in third world country that doesn’t even care what you do in internet or your country ruled by someone who dumb about technology
I mean, the US is a third world country ruled by someone who is dumb about technology.
You’ve never lived in an actual third world country if you think the US is one, even at its current state.
Technically, Earth is a third-world planet. Have you ever looked at a map of the solar system?
Everyone should use a VPN always.
That is idiotic.
VPNs absolutely have their places.
But if you don’t trust your ISP, why would you trust your VPN service with all your internet data?
Because I trust my VPN more then my ISP. This is a pretty obvious and common answer.
Most people don’t have a choice in their ISP. Or the government which provide provides oversight… But if you are privileged enough to have a ISP, you can trust, you’re certainly amongst the minority.
At least VPNs take transparent steps to protect you. At least there’s evidence supporting that.
I think this is a bit more like it. I once had a very nice and transparent ISP for some time, due to circumstances. They didn’t keep any logs at all. That’s better than most VPN providers. So any VPN would have been a major downgrade for me. Now I’m with one if the major Geman ISPs. I’m pretty sure they don’t steal my data, because that’s not in the contract we signed. And not like common knowledge that they’d do anything like that. I think I trust them more than a random NordVPN or shady super cheap VPN provider. Sure they’ll do lawful intercept. And there are use-cases for VPNs. But I rather do my online banking without any VPN and the data travelling through 3 other countries, since I have a good alternative. Also makes gaming, videoconferencing etc faster/better.
And a VPN just doesn’t do much in a lot of scenarios. For example if my cellphone provider uses or sells my location data from the cell towers… That’ll happen with or without a VPN. You’d be better off changing providers.
Sense to me like you don’t know what a VPN is for or what it does.
And what would that be?
Not quite… The video covers this, as does our overview:
Using a VPN in cases where you’re using your real-life or well-known identity online is unlikely to be useful. Doing so may trigger spam and fraud detection systems, such as if you were to log into your bank’s website.
That’s what the VPN providers like you to believe in.
With good reason
Nah homie, I am from LATAM, no good reason, no eyes care for what I do online here.
The only reason (and the most popular among the people I know) is to get better content (AKA USA) on streaming sites such as Netflix lol… And I have been using ProtonVPN free as of recently because it is an easy way to get rid of my IPv6 connection in my Android phone (why is this so unnecessarily hard to achieve BTW!?) because I think my ISP is shit and can’t handle IPv6+IPv4 sites properly or IDK… I get huge delays browsing sites like Trakt and Plex from my Android phone… And I am afraid I use both servcies daily… YouTube and Spotify also take its time loading, all these issues go away once I switch to an IPv4 network only.
Oh, and some Lemmy images take longer to load here too!
