VPNs seem to be all anyone is talking about for the past few months. I don't see why the average internet user who's not doing anything illegal/risky would use them. So anons, here's my question: Do you use a VPN? Why or why not?
VPNs seem to be all anyone is talking about for the past few months...
Mason Wilson
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Camden Kelly
They're completely useless and don't do anything to make you anonymous online. You can always use Tor if you're doing anything you don't want to be tracked to you, and if you need to torrent you can use Tribler.
99% of VPNs are a scam. It's just another money dumping service which nobody really needs.
Brandon Wilson
I trust my VPN provider more than I trust my ISP
Adam Thompson
using the internet counts as "doing something risky" that it's worthwhile to have protection for
Jason Garcia
VPN doesn't protect you from anything.
Adrian Ward
I only use them when I'm using hotel/restaurant/conference etc wifi on my laptop. But maybe I should use it at home too..
Brandon Roberts
I’m thinking about just to get around geoblocking.
Nathaniel Miller
Unless you killed someone important, are a producer of certain type of pornography at a massive international scale, an important terrorist or a massive international marketplace for shady products, you are more than safe with a vpn even doing illegal shit.
Thomas King
John Allen
>get Emails monthly from ISP saying movie studios have my IP and I need to stop downloading 2018.movie. bluray.iso on torrent or they will take action
>sign up to vpn
>no Emails since
I guess it works?
Andrew Nelson
What the hell are you hiding from then? Tor and Tribler are everything you need to hide from your ISP. If you just use a VPN websites will still track you because of your unique fingerprint, unless you literally never use JavaScript (or CSS) and have Firefox with privacy options enabled.
>safe with a vpn
99% of VPNs are a scam. The only ones in countries which don't use mass surveillance which negates the purpose of a VPN are Express, Nord, PerfectPrivacy, VPNArea and VPN.ac. Even then, you're paying for it with your credit card and you're connecting to them from your IP. Doing anything illegal on a VPN is more retarded than doing something illegal on your actual network.
VPNs are a snakeoil. You'd have to be a complete idiot to fall for the scam.
Benjamin Reed
>Tor and Tribler are everything you need to hide from your ISP.
One, I don't want my ISP to know I'm using Tor. Two, Tor is very heavily oriented towards web browsing. You can tunnel arbitrary traffic over it, but it's much more straightforward to do so with a VPN.
>websites will still track you because of your unique fingerprint
You don't have to make your fingerprint non-unique to avoid tracking, you just have to make sure it changes. There's a reason all the change-your-useragent addons have an option to pick a new random one every X minutes. In any case you know what a big thing they fingerprint on is? Your IP. You know, the thing that a VPN makes it easy to change.
>unless you literally never use JavaScript
uMatrix is not hard to use user.
Nicholas Mitchell
You obviously have never dealt with the any part of the government or the judicial system. Suffice it to say, incompetence is rampant, you’re expecting extra zealous competence from investigators who are just run of the mill, you’re aassuming that surveillance achieves anything when the reality is it doesn’t unless you are within the categories I mentioned above. Even with logs that are easily accessible by the local authorities, that is far beyond what will ever be looked at in any investigation unless you are a worthy cause. You also don’t need a credit card to pay for a vpn, you can achieve it with other methods. If you are truly doing something illegal there are thousands of unfiltered public hotspots out there.
Cameron Wright
>Do you use a VPN? Why
three reasons
1. untrusted network (publi/hotel wifi) to gain more trust with my connection
2. region bypasses
3. stability of connection for rare services that are total jank on the routes to my isp, but for some reason are smooth and without interruption when going through a tunnel elsewhere
Isaiah Barnes
>I use vpn if I don’t trust the public connection I’m on
Kayden Wright
just for download anime
Ayden Foster
Oliver Ortiz
You're a dumbass. VPN's main purpose is to prevent ISP snooping and third-party sites from profiling you. For example, I don't want Jow Forums knowing my entire post history. It's also nice if you want a more secure connection when using mobile networks.
Matthew Diaz
>For example, I don't want Jow Forums knowing my entire post history.
Yeah, that's all well and good, but you can't make a post with a VPN anymore.
Justin Anderson
You can, it's just equivalent to finding a needle in a haystack. I'm not going to say what VPN I use, but it definitely works.
Anthony Jackson
Are there that few vpns that all of them are blocked?