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I'm convinced all VPN's are honey pots. Prove me wrong.
The internet is a honey trap. VPN’s offer a modicum of protection, but will hand over your data as fast as any other company.
Why are they collecting data to begin with?
Even a VPN needs to store data to function. Want to have accounts, need to store data. But yeah, I get your point.
most promise they don't keep any data. But I assume we just have to trust them at their word.
They are and always have been. I got vyprVPN in 2010, and started torrenting. Got an email within a few days saying, you downloaded these movies, delete them.
They touted no tracking or logging, but obviously that's a lie if they sent me that email.
I've torrented many times with PIA (ditched after jew takeover) and never had a problem.
I've torrented many more times with Windscribe and never had a problem.
You probably had your P2P client misconfigured, your IP doesn´t show up when you torrent over a VPN, milions of people do it daily.
I torrent regularly with Nord. I got notices when I used domestic (5 eyes) servers. I've since gone to foreign countries outside of most spying programs without issue.
Also idk wtf this post is about. Maybe mobile Nord? My desktop Nord runs without issue.
I can't. If you're doing some shady shit then VPNs will not protect you.
If you're doing some shady shit then VPNs will not protect you.
correction: may not
it depends on the VPN and their logging policy - if they don't log then they cannot connect the user to an IP address even if they wanted to ... but you can never know for certain what they're doing or not doing
All VPNs are honeypots because if you don't agree to being a honeypot you will get raided and shut down. https://archive.is/52tMS
VPNs are a huge scam. They constantly advertise that they can magically prevent everyone from tracking you online somehow. Yeah no sorry, simply hiding your IP address means nothing. Everyone uses sites that require you to login. Once you login to a site they will track what your user account does regardless of whatever IP address you happen to be coming from. If sites didn’t work that way then they would stop working the second your IP address changed, which happens naturally all the time whenever you use a phone over a cellular network or even if you only use home internet, which often changes your IP regularly anyway. They all need to be sued for false advertising.
I feel like using a vpn then logging in is kinda on you. I mean. Of course you’re not gonna be anonymous when you log into your account. That seems self defeating
I both agree completely with you, and also disagree in certain parts.
VPNs can still be helpful in the following cases:
On licit websites where you don't need to set up an account and which rely on locational data (which, yes, can be a limited number of situations).
On licit websites where you do require an account, which doesn't actively restrict VPN usage, but where the only IP address the website has knowledge of is the VPN's IP address (which, again, may be a limited number of situations).
In the latter instance, a VPN offers a level of pseudonymity, based on how trustworthy the VPN company is. Depending on jurisdiction of the VPN server connected to, individuals can even use the client to access legal rights that people of other countries have access to.
VPNs are to hide your IP and geolocation from the destination site, at the Network level.
Not logging into your accounts for browser cookies and using uBlock Origin to break site-to-site tracking from common 3rd parties is the users responsibility, at the Application level.
Lol, what?
You don't know how any of what you are babbling about actually works.
Wtf nothing I said was remotely disputable you tard.
You are so hilariously retarded.
simply hiding your IP address means nothing
it does if your torrenting, or don't want a site to get your location, or don't want the recipient of an email to get your location, or want to view content that isn't accessible in your location, or don't want your ISP to know what sites you visit, or....
Hell, with all of the promotion of vpns lately, I'm fairly certain that it is safer to do shit without one. It's the people using vpns that are being targeted because they have something to hide, allegedly.
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