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Without knowing what the purpose of the VPN is, it is hard to know what to recommend. Most people shouldn't be using a commercial VPN at all given the security
by Someone1234 6y ago
Without knowing what the purpose of the VPN is, it is hard to know what to recommend.
Most people shouldn't be using a commercial VPN at all given the security and privacy problems inherent with doing so. The only popular reasons are to bypass geo-locking for services, full piracy, or because you're in an authoritarian country, and then you may want to ask in more niche communities for those things (since those are externalities beyond the scope of the VPN itself).
- chevill 6y agoIf I'm not worried about being killed or jailed by authoritarian governments and I just value privacy as a general principle what should I do instead of using a commercial VPN?
- Someone1234 6y agoCommercial VPN services can worsen privacy (although their marketing claims otherwise). You've now added a second government, second downstream ISP, second DNS provider, and then of course the VPN services themselves (in particular with the race to the bottom pricing, and the potential for break-ins). But in answer to your question: Encrypted non-ISP DNS (via DoH (DNS over HTTPS) ideally) and then HTTPS wherever possible. Most of the really constructive things you can do for privacy improvements are at the browser or OS side though. For example Multi-Account Containers, Facebook Container, uBlock, etc.