Are VPNs worth it, or are they just hype?
it’s worth it if you download movies and tv.
Depends on what you are using them for. If you’re looking to protect your data or your web history, it’s not going to protect you anymore than HTTPS which most websites in the 21st century use, or using incognito which most browsers have. But if you’re looking to stream region locked content it could be useful but a lot of streaming services are just restricting users who use vpn’s ability to access their website.
I don’t think they’re hype. Every time I use VPN to do online transactions the websites always say unusual activity is detected and I have to go through extra steps to verify my account.
Edit to add: it probably says unusual because it’s picking up a weird IP address.
NordVPN, last I checked, is great and only costs about $3 per month if you buy two years worth upfront.
All of the security stuff is nice but I use VPNs to be able to search and surf international websites. Because all results change if Google thinks you’re in a different country. Similarly, websites will automatically load to different content based on what country they think you are in.
I haven’t a vpn instaled but the one thats is built in with the Opera browser… just with it I could found a video in youtube that I was searching for it in the last 8 years…
I worded the question poorly, but this is the answer I was looking for. TYSM!
VPNs hide your search history and activity from your ISP,
Na they don’t, this is just a marketing gimmick that they tell youtubers to say because it sounds good. Your history isn’t very interesting to your ISP to begin with, but regardless HTTPS provides more protection to what you are looking at than a VPN does.
HTTPS simply encrypts communication data through the web interface, it has nothing to do with search history.
You just googled it and looked up the definition lmao. In laymans terms what HTTPS does is hide the elements of a webpage from your ISP and whoever else is looking around at your packets. Its a major part to internet privacy, because the ISP can see you are on pornhub (if they wanted), but they can’t see what video you are looking at, or what you are typing, how far you watched, etc.
You are correct. This is what I was taught in the few computer classes I took back in college.
https://www.secplicity.org/2019/11/22/public-vpns-dont-always-make-you-any-more-secure/amp/
He isn’t correct. Https provides more encryption to your search history and web usage than a VPN does. It literally makes 0 sense from a networking perspective how a VPN would hide your data in any way outside of the basic encryption most websites already have built into them.
It routes your traffic through several nodes then bounces back to prevent the data been read
It doesn’t prevent the data from being read. It spoofs where the web page you are loading thinks you are coming from. You don’t understand how the internet works if you think that your ISP doesn’t get anything back from it though lol. I’ve always compared VPN’s to a very thin sheet of tissue paper, sure they may be an obstacle but it’s not like there is much of an effort at hiding it lol.
HTTPS is a secure communication protocol to exchange data, not for hiding it.
You can keep giving me the google definition of HTTPS, it’s no difference than what I’ve said, I’m just describing a function of it and how it protects your data.
You can use whatever snakeoil you want to protect your data, its just very evident that you haven’t put nearly as much research into it as you think you have because VPN’s should not be trusted as web security lol.
I thought you were over it?
Why should I believe you over a man with his PhD and the actual live classes I took?
Like I said, every link you shared is just describing basic protection that every modern website provides with HTTPS lol. I don’t think you actually read through those top comments or articles.
No. I’m not believing you over the man with a PhD who taught the classes I took.
That’s perfectly fine.
You didn’t prove anything, because like I said
, every link you shared is just describing basic protection that every modern website provides with HTTPS lol
I’m over it though. You don’t have to reply to this one because I’ve disabled inbox replies. Have a good day! I do really hope you aren’t trusting VPNs to protect your web history or whatever you think they are doing lol.
It doesn’t bother me when I have downvotes. I don’t let those types of metrics gaslight me into believing something I know is wrong isn’t lol. I think anyone who goes into this thread and actually knows what a VPN does will read through these comments and pretty clearly understand you were missing several points I made in a pretty hard way because you wanted to be right. Hence your stance of pointing out upvote ratios and stuff like “point proven” and gishgalloping instead of rationalizing your sources.
Refreshed page and saw your reply and saw the upvote ratio comment and felt compelled to answer cause it made me chuckle. But now I am actually good.