I’m not an expert by any means here, but my impression is that it at some point comes down to a tradeoff between security/anonymity and having a fast enough connection. TOR slows you down much more than an ordinary VPN is what I’ve heard.
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Ziglin@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI too am out of the loop but why not use tor? The VPN companies can still trace it back to you if what you did turned out to be illegal.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That’s why I suggested trusted vpn companies. Proton keeps no logs, so they couldn’t hand it over if they wanted to. I also suggested VPN as opposed to TOR because TOR can be fidely, and complicated because of that to a non-techy person (which is what this person had said they were). The speeds of TOR are also not good for streaming.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
fidely
I don’t want to be that guy but I suspect you mean “fiddly,” whose spelling derives from “fiddle.”
I only mention it because it took me a bit to figure out what you were saying.
basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Thx, fixed that now!
bobo1900@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Because streaming over tor is 1) painfully slow and 2) a dick move for the whole network that is very important to others.
VPN don’t give a crap about people pirating, and governments probably don’t as much as people think (I guess that depends heavily on your country), but if you really want to be safe, go for one of the logless vpn, like mullvad or ivpn.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s fair it probably is safer than most people have you believe. I wouldn’t go for any VPN that clearly logs stuff that can be traced back to me, that would defeat most of the purpose (unless it’s one for accessing machines in my home network).
bobo1900@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Technically a vpn is a private company while ISPs I guess have less freedom over government request compliance. So a vpn would be slightly better but yes, very little added value if it’s one of the mainstream ones like nord or tunnelbear