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If you are using the network of a hotel or a train station, for instance. Assumption is that you trust that VPN provider of course.
Wouldn't you be better served by your own VPN server?
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Well https takes care of that. The hotel might be able to see that you visited a certain website but thats about it.
Asssuming they don't MITM your connection.
Which is not that trivial to begin with.
How hard would it be to take over the dns and simulate a fake VPN too?
Or just constantly disconnect the vpn and hope the user stops using it for a while.
Why are these VPNs even a thing? The only reason i would use one is to get cheaper steam keys from brasil and for that i can get a free one. From a security standpoint it is awful because you increase the number of providers you have to trust. Apart from your ISP and the server you connect to, you got a third party involved for no reason. And VPNs can not that trustworhty as shown by the leaks of logs and what not. M…
Also ISPs in the US are able to sell your browsing history (https://protonmail.com/blog/private-browsing-history/) but I believe this can be mitigated by DOH.
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How do they take bitcoin? I’ve seen various invoicing systems that completely break in Tor+JS and in all noJS environments. If they shoehorned bitpay in, its probably not tapping into the utility of having bitcoin payment options. I like paying invoices with Monero over Tor, while the merchant receives bitcoin that a third party pushed to them. I’ve been doing that for at least half a decade. But if I can’t access th…
They show you a BTC address and you send BTC to that address. Whatever arrives at the address is credited to your account. No "invoicing system" involved.
Why are these VPNs even a thing? The only reason i would use one is to get cheaper steam keys from brasil and for that i can get a free one. From a security standpoint it is awful because you increase the number of providers you have to trust. Apart from your ISP and the server you connect to, you got a third party involved for no reason. And VPNs can not that trustworhty as shown by the leaks of logs and what not. M…
Mostly because of their FUD marketing. Almost all of the VPN ads imply, if not outright state that accessing your bank account is unsafe without a VPN. I mean sure, if you want to sell Netflix access sure, but their security claims are way off.
Geoblocking I see, but other stuff without knowing exactly who you get VPN from and who is your ISP is extremely murky... And I think there is very few who can make educated decision on these. And they are running their own or using tor...
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