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More and more VPN services are shutting down in India
- mbilalarshad 4y agoThis may follow in other nations as well, how to maintain privacy in such situations is a big concern.
- favourable 4y agoA VPN should never be used for privacy unless you can prove they don't log, which is difficult. You would literally have to be in their datacenters and audit all their infra.
- mbilalarshad 4y agoIn that case, there comes a fundamental question of why do even V[Private]Ns exists?
- favourable 4y agoA few use-cases: - Accessing geo-restricted content (BBC iPlayer, Hulu etc) - Routing traffic over untrusted wi-fi hotspots (Starbucks, libraries etc)
- vegetable 4y agoare we not mixing up private networks with user (consumer) privacy? not an expert by any means, but isn't VPN used exactly for creating non-public networks? e.g. when you log into your work network when WFH or connecting your branch office users to the head office servers and corporate applications...
- favourable 4y agoSome VPN providers work around this by providing so called 'virtual' locations where the IP you are assigned is Indian, but the actual traffic is routed in other countries.