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>If you're buying into the "prevent people from spring on you" propaganda just keep in mind that the VPN only encrypts the data from your home to the VPN gatewa
by Tenoke 7y ago
>If you're buying into the "prevent people from spring on you" propaganda just keep in mind that the VPN only encrypts the data from your home to the VPN gateway, so the VPN provider itself can now spy on your traffic instead of your ISP.
Both PIA and Mullvad have a better track record than my ISP so it seems like a good trade.
But also it is for stuff like geoblocking, yes ( a lot is blocked in Germany)
I mean, worse case scenario you can tunnel one browser through VPN and an another browser through your normal connection. That's what I used to do with "ssd -d" but it feels like you should be able to isolate all request specific to a given tab nowadays to do what I want. Or at minimum for different users.
- iforgotpassword 7y agoI think their browser extension offer just that functionality, but I haven't used a VPN in quite a while. But I think your approach with two different browsers has an advantage too: It's much easier to differentiate by just memorizing that chrome is for VPN and Firefox isn't. You're less likely to accidentally browse to some website where you want to circumvent geoblocking without the VPN enabled. Thanks to cookies they might then perfectly know your actual location. I used to use a VPN for YouTube before they signed an agreement with GEMA and occasionally didn't enable the VPN and after a while Google tagged the static address of my VPN as German although it was in the US. Although you probably won't run into this problem when sharing the endpoint with people from all over the world.