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What VPN do you use to hide traffic from your ISP? (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FarLine99@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ssl will hide the contents but not the metadata. It's easy enough to build a profile on you just by understanding what sites you visit.

[–] Arose8334@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Correct. But a VPN provider can also build a profile on that metadata, and transparency is often lacking in the VPN business. I live in a country with fairly good privacy laws for now and much prefer my ISP to have my metadata than someone else.

[–] FarLine99@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

You are lucky in this regard 🙂