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No VPN: - ISP has your name and history. The AdTech knows your IP's history, and most likely your Id. VPN: - VPN has your history, but no name (paid via vouc
by auslander 8y ago
No VPN:
- ISP has your name and history. The AdTech knows your IP's history, and most likely your Id.
VPN:
- VPN has your history, but no name (paid via voucher), and is other country's legal entity. My ISP only knows I'm using some VPN service (DoT enabled on my router). The AdTech is missing key identifier, IP, to link your data together (to aggregate).
> ISP your VPN uses which knows everything
Both ISPs know squat, just encrypted traffic from my real IP
- dgrove 8y agoAnd all of your DNS traffic since it's not over TLS
- auslander 8y agoCmon, all DNS queries go via VPN tunnel.
- Godel_unicode 8y ago...And are trivially demasked for your VPN provider's ISP by traffic analysis (DNS requests are pretty obvious when transiting a VPN, then wait for the VPN provider to forward the packet).
- Godel_unicode 8y agoDo you truly believe that a VPN provider with access to all of your traffic has no idea who you are? If so, you either have truly impressive opsec or are not considering just how much can be gained from traffic analysis. Leaving aside the giant DNS question, there's SNI to consider as well as the VPN provider knowing your source IP and times of access. Then, because you're on hn, consider what the graph of little-used services you (probably) use says about you. Work VPN/chat/webmail servers? Admin interfaces for side projects you work on? And of course good old fashioned typos in your shell.