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[internetexplorer]

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[poika]

My theory on why VPNs are suddenly so big:
At this point even the normies have heard about all the evils of tech companies, surveillance, tracking etc. But they're not actually willing to change any of their ways. So here's this service where you can pay $5 a month to feel like you're taking some action to "protect your privacy". Whether it actually does anything is secondary. You're paying for (unwarranted) peace of mind.

[freesoftwareextremist]

VPNs are useful for torrenting if you live in a country were they actually sue you for this stuff (Germany).

[usel]

Luke is just chilling in nature talking about vpn, love it

[sdfdfxza]

A spanish journalist got an offer for a VPN, he investigated the company and that specifically VPN and other 5-6 VPNs where run by the same ex-mossad agent lol

[sokoTV]

VPNs were useful to me in school and at a workplace that blocked sites I needed. They're also convenient for torrents too. I still don't quite trust Onion, but the idea that VPNs are private fell away long ago for me. I have to balance what I need. If I don't use a VPN, torrent trackers for legal torrents send my IP to my ISP and they turn off my internet. I don't want certain sites to have my IP either, even though they can grab other metadata for sure.

[Ky-vvnj]

I use a VPN for two reasons:
1. Torrents
2. When I am on my college network, I don't want them to be able to see every site I access, since we have to log into the wifi with our actual student accounts.

[frog]

3:31 Thanks. I don't use VPNs for privacy, I use them because every hecking website is blocked in Russia.

[shApYT]

The second you log into Google or Amazon after you turn on your vpn are back to square 1.

[andrewwigglesworth]

Look up the UK and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), where ISPs are required to keep records of you internet activity, and then turn it over to any of dozens of state agencies and organisations without a warrant.

[argonnath]

Default Runescape character rants about internet privacy on the dirt road.

[FirstnameLastname-wedh]

In order to achieve decent privacy you'll have to take more steps then just using a VPN but I think VPNs are a useful tool for privacy (but not anonimity!) because you will share your IP with many people so the servers and end points you're connecting with don't know who you are based on this data point.

[saltytunes]

The only one I use is Mullvad since it means I finally have a use for XMR, basically just for torrenting so my ISP doesn't seethe

[theweirdamir]

Thank you for mentioning Iran. In Iran normal VPNs wont work because goverment using GFW that used in China. So most of people here even non-techie guys now a days are deploying tools that worked in China Against GFW. At the end this VPN companies are useless even in bypassing.

[kilyos]

Vpns add a lot of security for businesses. For example if you have a company that has a lot of servers, you can have your engineering team login to a vpn to access those resources by "local" ip. That way your server infrastructure isnt exposed to the public internet, which really does add a significant amount of security.

[CaptainKenway]

I wouldn't say that's quite accurate about not requiring a VPN to bypass censorship. In Europe at least, simply blocking sites is pretty common. It started with piracy and blocking access to sites like The Pirate Bay (which caused a million proxy sites to spring up overnight), but now wrongthink is getting the same treatment. RT's website is completely blocked where I am, as an example. You simply can't access it without a VPN. Not that I particularly want to read RT, but it's the thin end of the wedge. I expect this to become more and more common.

[nicksterba]

I just started using Mullvad VPN until I figure out how to create my own personal VPN. Thankfully we have this channel and MentalOutlaw.

[sunderkeenin]

I just use Mullvad because they offer a good service and appear to at least be trying, but the real benefit is I play games with peer 2 peer functionality and games which have player-hosted dedicated servers owned by actual weirdos. There are multiple reasons I'd want them to have not my real home IP. The secondary benefit is that I get significantly better routing to the nearest major network hub via Mullvad than via my ISP, so I get legitimate latency benefits to most relevant locations at some bandwidth cost.

[KYLE-zobm]

they used to be useful for geoblocked stuff but now most companies block VPNs :(

[jan_harald]

protip: if they got youtubers to hype their tech product, they're rather likely to be snakeoil ;P
same with ads in general, if you see an ad for them, they're automatically shady
but not ALL VPNs are bad, and there ARE valid use-cases for them, although if you have any sort of publically acessible server, you're better off just using your own server as a VPN (on a common-use port, such as 53, 443, or 80), like I trust WindScribe as my backup VPN, in case I want to appear from another location, or something (I normally use my own wireguard vpn, which yes, the VPS provider can also listen in, but who cares)
valid cases for a VPN are e.g. public WIFI (it's pretty damn easy to listen into traffic on a wifi hotspot, especially one without much security, like a coffee shop), or when you're port-blocked, or otherwise limited in access, such as in many schools and workplaces