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For those who use a VPN - why do you do it? Region-locked content, untrusted networks? They're pitched as a privacy thing, but privacy from who?
by bfors 4y ago
For those who use a VPN - why do you do it? Region-locked content, untrusted networks? They're pitched as a privacy thing, but privacy from who?
- vorticalbox 4y agoISPs (at least here in the UK) are required by law to log everything you do for a number of years. But does one need a reason to exercise their right to privacy?
- brewdad 4y agoNo said you needed to justify a reason but everyone has one. OP was simply curious as to what those reasons might be. No need to get defensive about it.
- vorticalbox 4y agoI am sorry if I came off as defensive not my intention. I was merely trying to point out that not everyone has a "reason" other than the fact they want to be private.
- agentdrtran 4y agoit can help reduce some kinda of tracking/fingerprinting although from what I've heard the utility of that is going down over time
- rejectfinite 4y agoPrivacy from the ISP logs, and thus court logs. Also region lock on legit services. Torrenting, even here in Sweden had media companies look up IPs in torrent swarms, go to court to get ISP logs = send lawyer letter.
- Hamuko 4y agoProtection from seedy Linux ISO honeypots.
- Scoundreller 4y agoI don’t get it
- shmde 4y agoI think it's an alternative way to say "Sailing the high seas"
- ChickenNugger 4y agoBecause my ISP spies on what I do, and tampers with my connection whenever they feel like it.
- Philip-J-Fry 4y agoI don't want my ISP seeing what I'm doing
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoI am not that concerned about governments spying, i am concerned about private spying.
- ezfe 4y agoI don't use a VPN for all things, since it causes various problems - but I do use it when: - I want to pirate content, which I do infrequently but like to do safely when I do it - I need to access a region-locked system Otherwise, I just use iCloud Private Relay in Safari since that blocks IP addresses and prevents against my ISP while not causing as many problems for accessing websites.
- shmde 4y agoPornographic sites. Majority of the sites are blocked in India. It's the only way to access them.
- mardifoufs 4y agoTo protect against this: https://twitter.com/privacylawyer/status/1117884896553263104?t=o2m7ndOqzG-LQ5ahF-vQYw&s=19 https://twitter.com/privacylawyer/status/1117884896553263104... Here in Canada, the usual copyright notices that came with a "pay this amount to settle" through your ISP were rightfully deemed to be almost extortionate scare tactics, and thus illegal. So copyright holders quickly moved to just outright suing people, directly through courts. So VPNs are essential, since you can be much more exposed to legal issues now than when "settlement notices" were the worst case scenario.