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It depends. If you are targeted by any 3 letter agency this will not help/save you. If you're worried about your shady ISP and/or other entities mining the he
by x86x87 4y ago
It depends.
If you are targeted by any 3 letter agency this will not help/save you.
If you're worried about your shady ISP and/or other entities mining the heck out of your traffic and/or selling this data it helps.
- GTP 4y agoBut then you're shifting your trust from your ISP to the VPN provider. So it makes sense only if you have good reasons to not trust your ISP. Personally I only use a VPN when I'm connected to a public WiFi network.
- x86x87 4y agoif your VPN provider does not know who you are it's a better than your ISP.
- plaguepilled 4y agoDepending on your personal circumstances, this can be a dramatic improvement. Local ISP laws differ dramatically across countries. VPNs won't let you evade the law, but they can reduce data footprint in certain contexts.
- yencabulator 4y agoMany ISPs have a track record of e.g. injecting ads in plain text HTML, in the days before ubiquitous TLS. Meanwhile, Mullvad has no idea who bought that scratchable one-time payment coupon, and we have pretty decent faith in them not logging metadata about your tracking for later study. The Mullvad server I am connecting to is claimed to be operating 100% without persistent storage.