SvennoJ said:
vivster said:
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.
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I fully agree with you. Yet also isn't the time of static user ips long gone? My isp regularly assigns a new ip address. I wouldn't even know what ip address to give out for someone to connect to. Ipconfig gives me 5 different ipv6 addresses, local ipv6 address, local ipv4 address. The modem has 2 different WAN IP addresses on a 7 day lease. Plus they have their own firewalls and even notified me once I had some malware causing suspicious internet access. Turned out to be some nasty worm on my old xp laptop. VPN would not have helped with that.
When I just got internet at home through isdn 20 years ago you still needed your own firewall. Always on internet was brand new, which attracted plenty wannabe hackers that regularly tried connecting to random people with port snoopers lacking anything better to do on a fledgling internet. You could see them logged on the firewall trying different ports. That wild west version of the internet has long since been tamed.
Using a vpn to play multiplayer games, doesn't that add extra lag? My work vpn had a 120ms to 150ms ping time from Europe to Canada. I couldn't imagine playing a game over that!
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You have one actual IP adress, there is a pool that your router/whatever you have pulls an IP adress from but the IP Adress that actually sents the data trough the ISP is always the same.
