Locking your door will give you some security from low effort break-ins, but if someone really wants in your house it's not keeping them out. Using a VPN is locking your door.
its not a matter of breaking in ( I assume your thinking like firewall ) I just dont think they keep anyone from knowing who you are. I personally think its a racket unless you want to fake out like a forum or something who banned you.
It's not a racket. ISPs sell your data, and their #1 customer is governments.
Yeah, sure, the NSA can figure it out, but do you think out of the millions of targets, you are going to get staff assigned to you?
VPNs protect you from your ISP, and let you get around geofencing. They also let you torrent without nasty legal threats from your ISP. Torrenting replaces netflix and all of that other "streaming" bullshit. Well worth it.
Well my isp is small and doesnt give a fuck, but the nsa records eveything and sure if there isnt a request nothing happens. But a vpn wont help you in that case and I think many think it will.
I just meant in a general sense of comparison of effectiveness and level of effort to get around. I didn't necessarily mean a VPN as a lock per se as a VPN and a firewall aren't the same.
A VPN routes your connection through an encrypted virtual tunnel. So who can see where you're really coming from depends on the encryption of the VPN.
Compare the encryption to a lock. If it's good even a good locksmith/hacker can't pick/crack your lock/encyption in a timeline that is realistically useful. But you don't necessity need to to get in. If I want in your house bad enough I can bash the door in or break window and fuck your lock.
The same is true with VPNs. If I'm trying to quietly Fifield out true traffic origin by cracking encyption and the encryption is good I'm gonna have a hard time. But if I really want to see you I can just use any number of ways to go directly into the VPN provider.
Which is racist as we learned.
Good way to frame it
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