Comment by CorrectHorseBat
3 years ago
A VPN only makes sense if you trust the VPN provider more than your ISP, if not you're only making things worse.
3 years ago
A VPN only makes sense if you trust the VPN provider more than your ISP, if not you're only making things worse.
Honestly my ISP is to incompetent to run anything, DNS, billing, provisioning, you name it. I know because because we used to do consulting for them. I am confident that there is no way that they'd be able to monitor my traffic, they can't even tell if an entire town lose connectivity.
Incompetence finds a way when money is involved. Notice how parking violations are performed with zeal but police can not be bothered for anything else short of an armed robbery.
I apologize for the language, it's needed for the dramatic effect, but who the hell actually trusts their ISP?
I see no reason to trust them less than shady companies selling "privacy"
There're shady companies selling privay and others like mullvad. They don't take your name on sign up and allow for paying with cash or BTC and even Monero.
Even if they'd log your IP and traffic (which they say they don't) they'd know way less about who you are then your ISP.
When I was living in a country that was putting up credible threats of large fines for ISPs reselling my data, I never really saw the need for a VPN.