What Is a VPN and Should You Use One?

VPN services are increasingly popular, promising to protect your privacy and keep you secure. Unfortunately, a lot of the claims they make are rubbish. In this video I explain how VPNs work, and tell you the truth about what they can and cannot do to help protect you.

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Video timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:57 - Why are VPNs Popular?
3:14 - What are VPNs?
5:17 - Privacy
8:56 - Protection from Hackers
10:11 - A Question of Trust
12:12 - Geo-Locked Content
13:21 - Public WiFi

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[DeonGaming]

Thank you for an easy to understand video which is still interesting to people who know general networking. I praise your ability to explain technical things without too many technical terms.

[padraigr]

Great easy to understand explanation of how a VPN works - especially like the bit about plugging your network cable into their computers . Thanks

[leiterservices]

thanks! That was helpful. I enjoyed the humor in there too!

[bretr]

Thanks for the video I appreciate how easy it is to understand your information. Looking forward to more!

[kcvv]

On a public WiFi you can also use TOR at the cost of speed.

[FutureXT]

Another awesome and insightful video 🙏🙏🙏.

The only criticism I have is that "white background". I struggled to watch while laying in bed.

Otherwise, love your channel ma guy💯.

[carkc]

Great overview... btw where's that accent from? sounds local (to me) 😆

[Hrubicundus]

Anything to be said for browsers with a built in VPN, e.g. Opera? Worth using or useless?

[rajashahbaz]

Is VPN also see our activity what we search and/or what we did inside the site like Facebook.
I mean if they know j use Facebook but they know what is did inside Facebook?