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It's right that people are paying for VPNs, but I'm wondering why. Most connections use TLS now, including DNS over HTTP. MITM attacks should not be much of an
by andor 6y ago
It's right that people are paying for VPNs, but I'm wondering why. Most connections use TLS now, including DNS over HTTP. MITM attacks should not be much of an issue.
What's the use case for regular consumers? Is it about getting around geoblocking or using P2P file sharing without consequences?
- corford 6y ago>Is it about getting around geoblocking or using P2P file sharing without consequences? Yes
- stjohnswarts 6y agoAlso for privacy in general from the ISP you use. It's nice to decouple your traffic from what is happening in that traffic. Only facebook/amazon/etc need to know where I'm headed on their particular website.
- 20after4 6y agoSSL already does that for you.
- gruez 6y ago>What's the use case for regular consumers? Is it about getting around geoblocking or using P2P file sharing without consequences? It also makes you harder to track. If your ISP doesn't use CGNAT (ie. you have a dedicated ip), then your IP identifies you on a household level. Combine this with webrtc leaks or device fingerprinting and you can reliably identified at a device level. Compare this to a VPN server, which probably puts you in a pool of a few hundred/thousand people. If you rotate servers, it puts you in a pool of tens or hundreds of thousands of people.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoMost of us prefer the isp not going which IPs are going through so they can't QoS the stuff we like to the lowest. Although I suppose they could they could do the same with any traffic they can't readily identify and just throttle anything that looks like a VPN.
- scarface74 6y agoBut then it slows down my internet. Why pay for Gig E up/down just to have it throttled?