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Commercial VPN services are not a good idea in the first place https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29 https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e
by wooptoo 9y ago
Commercial VPN services are not a good idea in the first place https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29 https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
- K0nserv 9y agoAs discussed in the thread[0] on this from the other day it's largely FUD. Fundamentally a VPN service allows you greater control over who you trust with your traffic. You always have to trust someone[1]. For example I trust F-Secure and the Finnish court system much more than I trust Virgin Media, GHCQ and the British court system which is why I run Freedome and route my traffic through Finland. As pointed out in another subthread here UK ISP are required to collect a bunch of data by the Snooper's Charter, the same is not true in Finland. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16371030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16371030 1: The default for many people is their local ISP which might or might not be a good entity to trust based on where you are. In many place you also have very few choice when it comes to your ISP.