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Think you don’t need a VPN? Here are five times ordinary people might need a VPN
- ranguna 6y agoI know why I need a vpn, just make it available in my country already.
- ThePowerOfFuet 6y agoJust go sign up for Mullvad. That's all it is.
- eznzt 6y agoMozilla is using the official blog of the Firefox browser to spam their VPN service through scaremongering.
- neolog 6y agoMozilla is using Mozilla's website to explain why one of their security products is useful.
- Jaxkr 6y agoIt’s misleading marketing. Modern HTTPS fixes all the issues they say a VPN solves. NOBODY is entering sensitive information on an unencrypted HTTP website.
- neolog 6y agoA VPN hides my IP address from the website and the domain from my ISP. HTTPS doesn't.
- nichch 6y agoYour IP address is a very small data point in the swarm of information used to fingerprint you. See https://amiunique.org/ https://amiunique.org/
- shock 6y agoAn IP provides an approximate physical location – a canvas fingerprint does not.
- nichch 6y agoSure. That’ll protect you from a site that - you visit once, or only on VPN, and have never visited before - you don’t have a personal account on - doesn’t contain third party scripts that track and correlate data (any js can obtain every point on that page and POST it away). In practice, unless you are going extremely out of your way to protect your privacy, (for most cases) a VPN is security theater and may even further expose you depending on your threat model.
- paulie_a 6y agoDo you really believe that?
- Demonsult 6y agoHTTPS reveals the server name in plain text early in the connection process. That, the DNS query and the IP header are tunneled away by a VPN.
- syspec 6y ago*clutches pearls*
- tinus_hn 6y agoWhy would you call your hotspot ‘C0MCAST-WiFi-77th-St’? If you just reuse the SSID used by the McDonalds free WiFi peoples phones and laptops will connect automatically!