• Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Mullvad or Proton.

    Remember that VPNs are mostly only useful for preventing region blocking and don't offer much in the way of additional privacy.

    • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
      hexagon
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      3 months ago

      All I want is for internet company to not send me mail when doing ip crime, does it do that or is it completely pointless

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      When we talk about privacy, we have to think of it in terms of privacy from whom. No, a VPN will not offer you any meaningful level of privacy from intelligence agencies, but it will keep your ISP from sending you nasty letters and cutting off your service for piracy.

      • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
        hexagon
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        3 months ago

        This is what I was looking for, idgaf if the nsa can still read my emails, I just don’t want wb or Comcast to pick up on anything

    • Odo@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Could you expand a bit on how they don't offer additional privacy?

      • MedicareForSome [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        Basically, your VPN just replaces your ISP. So for example, if I want an ISP that's okay with piracy a VPN can be3 a good option.

        Your IP address is not how you are spied on for the most part. It's more browser fingerprinting. So a VPN can offer a false sense of security when really enhancing your privacy is a lot less passive than that. Overall it can help but it's not a magic privacy button.

        Also entities like the NSA with a "god's eye view" can just track you anyways. Even if the VPN service wasn't compromised, they can just watch traffic going in and coming out and correlate it to you. It offers basically no protection from high-resource adversaries.