@8petros, it seemed robust and cost effective enough (I only rented a month to evade geolocation censorship and buy some music), but if you’re to trust something that has 100% of your browsing behaviors, you might as well just trust your ISP.
@8petros, a virtual public network has your IP and the servers you connect to (assuming TLS). It may claim that it does not do anything funny with that data, and you’ll have to take its words for it, the same for ISP, so no, don’t rely on it to protect you against anything. Geolocation evasion is the only valid use case and it does not come with any additional privacy benefit.
That is not 100% true. As you refer to the idea of VPN in general, consider political and legal differences. In a country where abortion is severely criminalized (including helping with, informing about etc.), one may risk being interrogated, or shortlisted just because they seek information or browse sites like fourthievesvinegar.org/abortio… Going through VPN located in a jurisdiction where regulations are more favorable is unlikely to create such risk. Of course, such a case can be interpreted as an extended variant of geolocation, but I think it isn't.
My major interest in terms of “trustworthiness” is whether they stick to their TOS. I would never rely on _a single_ security measure, but if they do what they say they do, their service is _a known_ component of the whole compound.
@8petros, my point was that we hand the provider a lot of data and there’s no way you can verify if it sticks to their TOS. In case it doesn’t, such data can be bought off by (data brokers who sell to) parties wishing to harm you, be it a jurisdiction wishing to put you in jail or advertisers wanting to manipulate you. You can speculate a provider’s motives, but that’s just gambling, the opposite of the safety you’re looking for.
Even if they do intend to stick to their ToS, a legal injuction may force them to give up your info without telling you. Or they can just be breached, which seems really common among commercial #VPN providers.
Please consider that you do not really know what I am looking for, apart from what I explicitly wrote here. Whatever you assume, extrapolate or guess is just your opinion. I am all into civilized conversation about pros and cons of any given solution. But if you start breaching my borders by telling me (without knowing it) what I have in mind, I will quit our contact.
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in reply to MortSinyx • •That is not 100% true. As you refer to the idea of VPN in general, consider political and legal differences. In a country where abortion is severely criminalized (including helping with, informing about etc.), one may risk being interrogated, or shortlisted just because they seek information or browse sites like fourthievesvinegar.org/abortio… Going through VPN located in a jurisdiction where regulations are more favorable is unlikely to create such risk. Of course, such a case can be interpreted as an extended variant of geolocation, but I think it isn't.
My major interest in terms of “trustworthiness” is whether they stick to their TOS. I would never rely on _a single_ security measure, but if they do what they say they do, their service is _a known_ component of the whole compound.
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