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Tom missed the biggest factor in VPN companies' exaggerations - that they call themselves "VPNs" because of the positive connotations of "Private", even though
by Arnavion 6y ago
Tom missed the biggest factor in VPN companies' exaggerations - that they call themselves "VPNs" because of the positive connotations of "Private", even though they're just proxies and have nothing to do with VPNs.
- userbinator 6y ago...and even the ones that use actual VPN software don't actually have anything for the "N" part of "VPN", so they are still just proxies. But I guess it makes it easier to refer to than "proxy for all protocols."
- hunter2_ 6y agoI've only used my work VPN, so I just assumed commercial VPNs had similar mechanics. They don't lease IP addresses?
- Arnavion 6y agoThere's a tunnel from your computer to the VPN entrypoint, but the point of a VPN is to become part of another Network of computers that is Private and could thus not be reached otherwise. There's no private network of computers for these "VPN" services. They're just a proxy to the internet.