Stop using VPNs for privacy.

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[WolfgangsChannel]

Are you feeling confused after watching this video? Do you find yourself asking "So, if VPNs don't protect my privacy, what should I use instead?"?

[ashleyl]

*stops using VPN*
"Sorry, the content provider has not made this video available in your region."
*starts using VPN again*

[ShinareAeruil]

Title: Stop using VPNs.
Youtube: "Let's place NordVPN ad here!"

[vxnFloppa]

Plot twist: hes just a hacker and hes tired of getting stoped by vpns (this is a joke, I dont care if vps dont stop hackers)
Edit 2: this was supposed to be funny. You can stop trying to argue another point in the replies?

[penta]

NordVPN could've just used a VPN to protect themselves from the hacker attack

[automobilesarefun]

Thats it I'm never using the internet.

[augray]

All I want to do is just watch stuff thats not available in my country.

[-pc]

When reading the comments, a counter-argument can be found for each argument: ''Use this. Do this. Don't use that, it's useless'' and so on. You can read the comments all day trying to find out how it really is, to get what is true and what is not, until you finally realize that no one really fully understands how it is. The more you read, the more you understand that.

[Tony_Goat]

Let's use a VPN for what it was originally designed for: Worldwide LAN party

[obsession]

Nice try FBI. I still ain’t gonna turn it off


Edit: people below can’t comprehend the concept of satirical comedy

[poshko]

That’s it. I’m moving to Montana, starting a potato farm, and building my own ISP. Who’s with me?

[matthewortiz]

Also, any time a service becomes large enough to be publicly recognizable; instantly becomes a target not only for hacking but also for corporate and political infiltration.

[mingzhezhang]

Meanwhile YouTube users in China: "Sure, I'm gonna stop using them right n

[bruderdasisteinschwerermangel]

I disagree with a few points here. I don't think VPNs are a flawed idea. But they're marketed in a way that is just deceptive.

[annekedebruyn]

Stop using bad VPN's would be a better title.

[zacharyhurst]

Glad some one is telling the truth. The real truth is privacy online has been dead for 10 years. The system was never built for privacy it was built to connect.

[arman]

"Stop using vpns"
Bruh I literally have to use a vpn to watch youtube

[WolfgangsChannel]

*Welcome to the comments section! Please read this first:*

Q: Who else got a VPN ad?
A: Everyone did. The title has 'VPN' in it, so YouTube puts VPN ads on the video

Q: The title sucks! It should've been "stop using bad VPNs" or "stop using VPNs for wrong reasons"
A: If I said "stop using bad VPNs" people would automatically assume their VPN is good. NordVPN, PIA and PureVPN were all considered "good" at some point. If the title was "stop using VPNs for wrong reasons", people would automatically assume their reason is valid.

Q: What if I live in China/Russia/North Korea?
A: There are good reasons for using a VPN and this is discussed in the video. Circumventing censorship is one of those reasons.

Q: What if I want to torrent or watch porn?
A: See previous answer

Q: But without a VPN my ISP will be able to snoop on everything I'm doing!
A: That's not true. HTTPS and SSL/TLS encrypt full URLs and contents of the websites you visit. Your ISP will still see the domain names, but so would the VPN provider. In some cases, if your ISP is affiliated with the government and you can get in serious trouble by browsing certain websites, it's reasonable to use VPN or Tor. However, for the most part, it's a choice between trusting a big ISP comany that resides in your country and trusting an anonymous nobody on the Internet who would have no accountability for misusing your data.

Q: No
A: Okay

[BirdTurdMemes]

A better title would be “Don’t rely on a VPN for privacy”, more accurate however is less clickbaity

[djtigon]

Another valid use case for VPN: livestreamers and social influencers concerned with bad actors (or just whiney script kiddies) from capturing their IP address