Comment on Exposing the billion dollar secret most VPN companies don't want you to know
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoYou use a vpn to (hopefully) keep some privacy. To bypass geoblocks, to not let a state spy on you, to access webpages that are blocked in your country, to screw an ISP that is throttling your connection…:
In general, there are lots of use cases for a trusted vpn that are not illegal. The problem with many vpn’s is that they offer “privacy” when they are spying on you.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Any commercial entity will allow the state to spy users.
Using somebody else’s vpn is only useful for getting geoblocked content. If you want actual protection from the government you need it running on your own hardware and configured with a dead man’s switch.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Not true. I’ve been pirating for almost a decade from my VPN. One time it crashed and keep seeding, I got 108 notices from ISP.
Fixed the issue by binding my nic to the app, never had issues again.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m honestly shocked that you get the sort of individual here in Lemmy that doesn’t understand the difference between a commercial company; and DHS, DoJ, JTAC, DGSI, etc.
Please read my comment again and tell me why you think torrenting might make you an enemy of the state. God damnit it’s hard keeping lemmings on topic.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 days ago
How about suck my balls.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Wrong.
pcmag.com/…/mullvad-vpn-hit-with-search-warrant-i…
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And I’m sure the government hasn’t complelled them to do anything in the background.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
It’s not healthy being this paranoid. You’re not being hunted by the government.