malistix1985 said:
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See, that is kinda bullshit. Pure VPN marketing.
First of all an ISP will not track every single packet and its source and destitnation, let alone layer 7 headers. That's ludicrous. And even if they would try to do it it would maybe stored for a week max.
Second, all sensitive information between your PC and website is end-to-end encrypted via SSL/TLS anyway, so they can't even read your fucking google searches. Traffic that's not encrypted is usually not worth protecting anyway. The big exception would be DNS but you're free to choose any DNS server you like and even encrypt your DNS traffic for free and without VPN. So the encryption the VPN offers is useless and just adds overhead. The important information you leave on the internet is stored on the web servers you visit and not with your ISP. I mean do you know how many servers world wide know your email and home address?
Third, who exactly do you think you're protecting yourself from? Malicious hackers don't care about random individuals, the government doesn't care about non-criminals, corporations track you with other means.
So all in all, the only useful functions of the VPN is being used as Proxy to access content you're geoblocked from, which is a legal grey area anyway. A VPN or its way better alternative, TOR, are nice tools but you shouldn't oversell the benefits.
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History really shows us VPN's do work. When Germany was hit by letters of copyright claims with people having to dich out hundreds of euro's people who where behind a VPN where not getting those letters.
I am not trying to oversell the benefits especially not for people who use the internet in a regular way but these people are mostly talking about downloading copyrighted content and when you do it the companies who get their information on downloaders generally will go after the easiest targets and try to scare the rest of. Thats just something you can see from countries where downloaders have been punished in the current/past.
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So VPN works sometimes when protecting criminals.... hooray? Doesn't really explain how YOU or the general internet user benefits from it.
In my professional opinion, the only people who profit from VPNs are VPN hosts that either charge money or run ads. They are so successful because it's very easy to scare people into believing that someone is tracking them.
It's the same scam sale networks and shit like Infowars use. Scare people to make money.
