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      10 months ago

      VPNs do little for your privacy, unless there’s specific reason to trust them over your isp

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        10 months ago

        There are few things I trust less than a regional data monopoly

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          10 months ago

          A VPN can collect the same data as an ISP, and can be subject to the same requests/laws from governments

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          10 months ago

          Thank you for this helpful comment providing insight into a complex topic

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        I have a friend who works for a German ISP.

        He personally has set up a system which automatically provides all the data requested by the police, without checking whether the request is formal and valid.

        I rather trust a VPN provider from a jurisdiction where logging any user data is not required by law. Or an SPN, where even if logging has to be enabled by law, it is technologically impossibe to extract a user’s activity from the data.

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          10 months ago

          So you have a specific reason to trust certian VPNs over your ISP. My point was just that VPNs aren’t inherently better than ISPs

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        ISPs pass on your data to various authorities in quite a lot of countries. My own country (UK) has such a terrible privacy reputation I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find ISP’s hand over data for every request.

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          Yep, same here. Its almost trivial for ISPs to hand over data to the govt on any invented basis. They also do so to any business or company that asks for it, but they will charge them fees AKA selling data.

          Worst part is there is no oversight, and there really is no segment of population that cares about privacy to raise this as an issue either.