Comment on Nord VPN tv commercials are incredibly misleading

charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s for torrents.

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  • m_f@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    VPNs are great for avoiding the nastygrams that your ISP forwards to you from media companies. They get sent to some company that doesn’t care about US laws instead, and probably laughed at before being deleted

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    • terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Eh, the problem is, most of these big vpn providers end points are well known by most isp’s.

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  • AngryAnusHornets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      …it’s fer the torrents. I love you, VPN.

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• rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use my VPN on public networks for additional security

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nowadays everything is encrypted by default. You don’t get additional security with a VPN.

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    • m_f@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not everything is. HTTP and unencrypted SNI are still around.

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      • tsz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Name a popular service that isn’t encrypted but using it might expose you in a legitimate way.

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    • terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, not really with these, per se. My own VPN, Wireguard, routes back through my pihole service to double down on it’s filtering. For the most, I’m not trying to obfuscate my ip. If I wanted to do that I’d use tor or something. I just don’t want my traffic to be easily snooped on when I’m connected to wifi that isn’t mine.

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      • weirdwallace75@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And HTTPS does that. It’s encrypted.

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• Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, if you access things on the internet you could be sued for, your IP will not appear in the logs of your ISP or the webserver you connected to.

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  • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sure. But they can’t advertise on that point. So they made claim it’s for malware and tracking protection even though that makes no sense.

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think it keeps your isp from knowing what websites you’re going to?

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