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A VPN isn't going to protect you from malware or trackers. I'm not sure how they can get away with this marketing.

If you want to boost your security focus on your web browser

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I thought the 'security' angle was just a smokescreen anyway. Isn't it actually for accessing region-locked media?

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] m_f@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

VPNs are great for avoiding the nastygrams that your ISP forwards to you from media companies. They get sent to some company that doesn't care about US laws instead, and probably laughed at before being deleted

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Eh, the problem is, most of these big vpn providers end points are well known by most isp's.

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use my VPN on public networks for additional security

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nowadays everything is encrypted by default. You don't get additional security with a VPN.

[–] m_f@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not everything is. HTTP and unencrypted SNI are still around.

[–] tsz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Name a popular service that isn't encrypted but using it might expose you in a legitimate way.

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, not really with these, per se. My own VPN, Wireguard, routes back through my pihole service to double down on it's filtering. For the most, I'm not trying to obfuscate my ip. If I wanted to do that I'd use tor or something. I just don't want my traffic to be easily snooped on when I'm connected to wifi that isn't mine.

[–] weirdwallace75@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And HTTPS does that. It's encrypted.

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yes but I use more than web traffic stuff on my phone.

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, if you access things on the internet you could be sued for, your IP will not appear in the logs of your ISP or the webserver you connected to.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure. But they can't advertise on that point. So they claim it's for malware and tracking protection even though that makes no sense.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I think it keeps your isp from knowing what websites you're going to?