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[-] MedicareForSome@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

Basically, your VPN just replaces your ISP. So for example, if I want an ISP that's okay with piracy a VPN can be3 a good option.

Your IP address is not how you are spied on for the most part. It's more browser fingerprinting. So a VPN can offer a false sense of security when really enhancing your privacy is a lot less passive than that. Overall it can help but it's not a magic privacy button.

Also entities like the NSA with a "god's eye view" can just track you anyways. Even if the VPN service wasn't compromised, they can just watch traffic going in and coming out and correlate it to you. It offers basically no protection from high-resource adversaries.

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