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> It's not clear to me why the VPN people are more trustworthy than ISPs. In my country, the UK, ISPs are legally required to retain logs of customer activity
by weavejester 8y ago
> It's not clear to me why the VPN people are more trustworthy than ISPs.
In my country, the UK, ISPs are legally required to retain logs of customer activity for 12 months. A VPN has no such legal requirement.
So while I can't be 100% sure that my VPN is monitoring me, I can be 100% sure my ISP is. Additionally, my VPN has a financial incentive not to log customer data, or at the very least, not to be caught doing it.
(I'm currently using IVPN (https://www.ivpn.net/ https://www.ivpn.net/). It's on the more expensive side, though that isn't necessarily a bad thing, and it supports multihop over OpenVPN, and the experimental Wireguard protocol.)
- m0nty 8y agoPlus, in the UK the VPNs do not block certain websites which ISPs are legally required to block.
- saveferris 8y ago+1 for IVPN...I've been using it for more than a year. I use both the client and openvpn versions. A heads up...in the whack a mole back and forth amazon, netflix, etc. will not allow you to connect from IVPN known IP addresses. That's not an issue for me, I'm not using it to get around country restrictions but if you do plan to do that IVPN may not be your best bet.