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In a world where HTTPS was the exception, I could see a use for this sort of service. Now not-HTTPS is the exception, not so much. Privacy from your ISP? Okay,
by billpg 7y ago
In a world where HTTPS was the exception, I could see a use for this sort of service. Now not-HTTPS is the exception, not so much.
Privacy from your ISP? Okay, but I've replaced that problem with privacy from my VPN provider. Is that a better problem? Is my VPN provider going to exploit me less than my ISP would have?
Geographic restrictions? That's a genuine benefit. Alas, it would end up as a bit of an arms race as websites that really don't want me to visit would start blocking VPN providers.
- onychomys 7y ago> Is my VPN provider going to exploit me less than my ISP would have? Well, probably the answer is yes, since we have many years of experience with the terrible behavior of ISPs. VPNs have a much smaller userbase, so I suppose they have less of an opportunity to screw you over, but come on, even the worst of them has to be better than something like Comcast.
- petronio 7y agoIn addition to what onychomys stated, there's also the matter of locality. If you were to assume they would be equally likely to exploit you, your ISP is more capable of doing so because it's local. For example, the VPN provider can sell your data to spammers that get filtered, but you ISP can shove spam in your physical mailbox.