Do you use a VPN?

[malistix1985]

vivster said:

malistix1985 said:

Its very simple, people know what they do online and on their computer and if you are doing things you want to hide you need to hide it. Personally I have many reasons but when people where discussing downloading illigally its just a no brainer for me personally that if you do that a VPN has proven to be a good investment to people in the past.

But like I mentioned before some really cool benefits right here:

You can set your region using VPN getting cheaper offers online for CD-Keys (PC/STEAM). 
You can more easely set up games with friends by selecting a VPN in their country
You can unlocked content that is blocked in your country
You can download and share content more safely

and yes also if You want to protect your online data from government surveillance, ISPs, hackers, snoops, and spies.

I am not trying to sell people on VPN but I have always apriciated the service myself and I was wondering who else thinks so. Obviously if you are an average joe and just play games and don't use the computer much, it might not be worth it for everyone

All the things you said are either completely illegal or in a dark grey legal area. Your first paragraph alone sounds like an advertisement on how to do crime. But the most ergregious one is in bold. Because that is a lie told by VPN providers to make money. They're really the only ones profiting from this business. And of course you, when you do your crimes.

I'm not saying that everyone who uses TOR or VPNs is a criminal, even though you just admitted that to the world, all I'm saying is it's absolutely worthless for non criminal activities.

Malicious people will not go after your IP. They couldn't care less about that. Your information you spread on the internet is not stored in your IP. It's stored on web servers you have no control over. It's stored in your browser, your email address, your smartphone. Masking your IP is just a feeble attempt at most and a useless one at worst.

Another interesting tidbit is that you are making yourself a lot more vulnerable to attackers by using VPN. Because in VPN hosts thousands of connections are bundled together, making it a juicy target for government agencies, corporations and hackers.

Being a single individual on the internet is the most protection you can get and all that you need.

What I said isn't illigal at all, one of my elder friends for excample is a writer of german litterature and he wants to protect the things he writes, shares etc. Things don't always have to be copyrighted to keep safe.

And being able to set your region to access certain content is just a big benefit, clearly you feel like since you are a single individual you are safe, personally I discuss things with colleges trough the internet and want things to be kept private mostly because of my job but the additional benefits I have gotten have deffenitely made it a worthwile investment.

Anyway I understand you don't feel like you need it, I don't know what you do on the internet, but I deffenitely understand where you are coming from