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That's hardly the only concern. What if they have an arrangement to sell your traffic data to ad networks? Inject ads via dns poisoning? Inject Bitcoin mining J
by Godel_unicode 9y ago
That's hardly the only concern. What if they have an arrangement to sell your traffic data to ad networks? Inject ads via dns poisoning? Inject Bitcoin mining JavaScript into http? Throttle traffic unless e.g. Netflix pays for bandwidth?
VPN just substitutes an unregulated ISP for a somewhat regulated ISP.
- jessaustin 9y agoSomeone would notice a VPN firm fucking with their only service in those ways (well, maybe not the first way), and then they wouldn't have any more customers. That's the difference between these firms and ISPs: they face actual competition!
- Godel_unicode 9y agoSomeone technical enough to notice would notice, I think that’s a small portion of people who are being preyed on by Big Privacy.