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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 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.
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
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....
You are so hilariously retarded.
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.
even if you only use home internet, which often changes your IP regularly anyway.
You said that. That is 100% false. A router WILL NOT just change an IP. It won't. You will stay the exact same IP on a router unless you manually change it, for as long as you keep connected to that router. I highly doubt your home network is experiencing enough traffic to cause issues with IP number requests and overflow.
My public IP is the same as it's been since I moved in to my house. So my ISP isn't changing it. This despite the fact that I've gone through multiple different modems.
Literally 100% of the post in question is retarded, wrong, and reeks of you being a kike who can't even into opsec.
Right. You described how a user account works. Good job.
What the figgy fuck does that have to do with using a reliable VPN?
Oy vey, goyim. Don't use internet condom, it's worthless!
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.
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