• 1984@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    I trust my vpn provider, but I don’t trust my isp to not give out my ip. So using a VPN is obvious and I havent had any issues doing that for decades.

    If your mindset is that you can’t trust anyone, then yes, doesn’t matter. But you can trust some of them. You need to know which ones have a history of caring about privacy and which ones are just advertised heavily.

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      7 months ago

      But you can trust some of them. You need to know which ones have a history of caring about privacy

      All I see in the tech world is the companies that have been caught red-handed doing shady stuff and those that haven’t yet.

      You say you can trust some of them based on their history of caring: can you? What’s their history of caring other than how long they’ve sworn to do the right thing and haven’t been caught doing otherwise yet?

      Like I said, tech companies don’t resist the lure of big data money for very long these days. If you think any VPN provider isn’t at least seriously considering monetizing the traffic you send them to make more money on you than the few dollars you throw their way every month for the VPN service, you’re deluded. I would never trust a VPN with all my internet traffic. That’s just too much of a risk.

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        7 months ago

        Ok and if you don’t trust anyone, you don’t have any protection at all.

        Personally I don’t trust any big tech companies, naturally. But there are smaller vpn providers like Mullvad that are trustworthy. They are never American.

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          Ok and if you don’t trust anyone, you don’t have any protection at all.

          Correct. I assume I don’t, so I’m always super-careful not to give away any information I don’t need to give to begin with. Or I give fake information whenever possible, to pollute the well. For the rest, as the old saying goes, if it’s on the internet, it’s as good as public.

          They are never American.

          Agreed. If you have to trust a company with your privacy in any way, don’t use an American company. It’s not even their fault: they operate in a country that’s fundamentally dangerous for your privacy.

          My email provider is in Norway. for instance.