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Do you use a VPN for your Internet use

Yes 30 42.86%
 
No 33 47.14%
 
What is a VPN? 7 10.00%
 
Total:70

What vpn service do u use, and can you download at your highest speeds thrugh a vpn?



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malistix1985 said:

there are Many VPN Hosts who have the agreement they don't log information if they ever violated that and accused a user of their VPN they would insantly lose all their subscribers. A VPN is much more secure then a ISP which is completely trackable by goverments, hackers and pretty much anyone.

A VPN alone is not anymore secure than your regular connection ... (a VPN is just a glorified proxy) 

All VPNs log information since they can see your traffic, it's what they do with the information that's up to them ... 

Plus the vast majority of the connection quality of VPNs are poor so how does paying more for a slower internet connection make sense ? 



Turkish said:
What vpn service do u use, and can you download at your highest speeds thrugh a vpn?

I use Express-VPN its extremely fast I never notice I use a VPN at all

fatslob-:O said:
malistix1985 said:

there are Many VPN Hosts who have the agreement they don't log information if they ever violated that and accused a user of their VPN they would insantly lose all their subscribers. A VPN is much more secure then a ISP which is completely trackable by goverments, hackers and pretty much anyone.

A VPN alone is not anymore secure than your regular connection ... (a VPN is just a glorified proxy) 

All VPNs log information since they can see your traffic, it's what they do with the information that's up to them ... 

Plus the vast majority of the connection quality of VPNs are poor so how does paying more for a slower internet connection make sense ? 

Many paid VPNs have a no-logging policy and don't keep any of the sensative data, some throw everything away and others only keep basic IP information (like mine) either way if they sell or give your data away they will cross the policy you as a payer have made with them, they have policies in place that prevent them from selling out their customers so what you are saying isn't true. A ISP cannot see your data anymore since a tunnel is set up with encryption between you and the VPN so you are not right. When you use a quality VPN your data WILL be hidden.

Bristow9091 said:
I've never needed to use one yet, although I've considered using one to see what shows I may be missing on Netflix, lol

Its really easy to unlock netflix content by being able to select a region so deff try it out sometimes, many VPN's have a 30 day trial or money back rule so you could even try it for free with a good VPN




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malistix1985 said:

Many paid VPNs have a no-logging policy and don't keep any of the sensative data, some throw everything away and others only keep basic IP information (like mine) either way if they sell or give your data away they will cross the policy you as a payer have made with them, they have policies in place that prevent them from selling out their customers so what you are saying isn't true. A ISP cannot see your data anymore since a tunnel is set up with encryption between you and the VPN so you are not right. When you use a quality VPN your data WILL be hidden.

@Bold You can't make that assumption until you truly see how the hosts internally operates ... 

I also didn't make the point that ISPs will see your data, just strawman on your part and what's not right is your assertion that your data will stay hidden since you're still at the mercy of VPN hosts ... 

Vivster is right that this is just bullshit and pure VPN marketing ... 

I'm supposed to trust my privacy to a policy that could be potentially broken at any point in given time ? (their word is not good enough, the VPN hosts need to be an open community and transparent too in order to fully place my trust in them) 

VPNs have slower connection and I'm not OK with lower performance since I only find my ISP service to be passable as it is ... (I can't imagine how unbearably bad it is with VPNs and do they have data caps too ? If so then big minus right there.) 

VPNs are tied to their geopolitical location which means that if you ever want to access content from another country you'll have to switch to another VPN that is based around that country ... 

IMO, it's not worth forking over more of my cash just for 'promises' of privacy ... 



fatslob-:O said:
malistix1985 said:

Many paid VPNs have a no-logging policy and don't keep any of the sensative data, some throw everything away and others only keep basic IP information (like mine) either way if they sell or give your data away they will cross the policy you as a payer have made with them, they have policies in place that prevent them from selling out their customers so what you are saying isn't true. A ISP cannot see your data anymore since a tunnel is set up with encryption between you and the VPN so you are not right. When you use a quality VPN your data WILL be hidden.

@Bold You can't make that assumption until you truly see how the hosts internally operates ... 

I also didn't make the point that ISPs will see your data, just strawman on your part and what's not right is your assertion that your data will stay hidden since you're still at the mercy of VPN hosts ... 

Vivster is right that this is just bullshit and pure VPN marketing ... 

I'm supposed to trust my privacy to a policy that could be potentially broken at any point in given time ? (their word is not good enough, the VPN hosts need to be an open community and transparent too in order to fully place my trust in them) 

VPNs have slower connection and I'm not OK with lower performance since I only find my ISP service to be passable as it is ... (I can't imagine how unbearably bad it is with VPNs and do they have data caps too ? If so then big minus right there.) 

VPNs are tied to their geopolitical location which means that if you ever want to access content from another country you'll have to switch to another VPN that is based around that country ... 

IMO, it's not worth forking over more of my cash just for 'promises' of privacy ... 

I understand you don't want to, thats fine.
But a promise and contract with a paid VPN for privacy seems better then the knowledge you have no privacy, to some.




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Firstly a VPN does not protect you from hacking or DDOS attacks at all and it only provides "semi" privacy depending on the VPN service you use and your habits while using a VPN, most people are not hard to trace through a VPN as they expose themselves in so many different ways from browsing habits, to social media access etc etc and really it is just no one needed to or wanted to trace you.

personally I use a VPN for when I really want to be anonymous, for that I have a specially configured VM.