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What VPN do you use and why? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you are a pirate VPN is an essential tool. I am trying to ascertain the popularity of various VPNs in piracy community. In this excerise, I will list several Popular VPNs in the comment if you use one of them just upvote that comment and reply the reason. If you don't find your VPN listed add a comment with just their name. Reply the reason to it. This make it easier to understand the real life user cases.

P.S: I am only looking for paid VPNs please don't mention "free vpn".

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

and a private telecommunications company can read absolutely all your digital communication

Well maybe. It's one of the reasons e2e encryption is so imperative to online privacy. For instance, turning on https everywhere, then your isp can only see which servers you're connecting to, not what's in your traffic to them.

And to point it out up front, yeah the distant end's servers likely have some for of that traffic captured, but now law enforcement has to dig up every company that they're trying to pull info from. Which is significantly more difficult than just relying on a one stop shop arrangement.

And for the best privacy, like security, a multi-layered approach is better. So throw in a VPN, throw in something like a mullvad browser, throw in pseudonymous accounts, throw in different usernames + passwords across accounts, throw in...