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  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Privacy is a goal worth having in and of itself.

    I can’t believe there’s still people on here in the current political climate saying things like “well I don’t have anything to hide anyway, I don’t care if evil corp / the state / any curious person knows my every move.”

    Well, I do care. It’s none of their fucking business what I’m doing and what sites I’m visiting.

    • Vub@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I agree 100%, I was just wondering about the technicalities - how much does using a VPN protect us.

      • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        As far as I know, the only person who has information on what you’re browsing is the VPN provider. Your ISP would only see that you were connecting to the VPN, and how much data you were pushing and pulling from them but wouldn’t even have the domain names of the things you were browsing, nor any packets that were actually exchanged.

        The VPN provider could still have all of this information, but presumably not more unless you were doing a lot of stuff unencrypted or were using some weirdo middleware that could man in the middle your encrypted connections.