![]() Feds can put their grubby fingers in international traffic all day but SHOULDN’T be snooping on Americans. It’s often the same technology (Software called OpenVPN) with the companies logo and interface all over it so in my experience price doesn’t mean much here.ĭue to data collection laws here in the US, I use a US based company and US based server. Read through each one till you hit your sweet spot. Some of these take bitcoins, and don’t require real billing information. These VPNs claim to not keep logs, and most have it setup so you share a single IP address with hundreds / thousands of users making tracking YOu even harder. You use unsecure wifi, there are untrusted devices on the network or it’s a monitored network (like a work wifi), your ISP sells your data, geo content restrictions, keeping destination servers from knowing your real IP/location. Heres a list of no trust situations a VPN could help with. All those peers see is the IP of the vpn server and not the one given to you from your ISP. ![]() Some ISPs dont like you using p2p networks like torrents, the vpn “tunnels” all traffic, all your ISP sees is 1 connection to 1 server instead of you sharing a file with thousands of peers. Listeners between your canadian computer and the american server will have a hard/impossible time seeing what the encrypted traffic is. Often media companies like Netflix and sports will geo lock content so it can only be watched from certain locations, flip on the vpn and bam, you’re in a whole different country watching content you’d normally never see. ![]() To the traffic comes from that server in America, and hopefully I have no idea you are really in Canada. Let’s say you’re in Canada, and you’re using an American VPN server, you are taking your internet traffic (a request to ), adding an extra layer of encryption, shooting it across the internet to an American server, where it is decrypted and sent to your destination ( ). In the USA we supposedly have the freedom to practice using encryption, proxies, and other safe practices, where in China they might just behead you. If you are trying to avoid being tracked, or communications being read by ANY government agency, while not impossible, requires understanding of ever changing infrastructure and advancing technologies. You gotta read these 2-3 paragraphs (and maybe the thread again) before you get to the easy answers. Security is like an onion, it happens in layers. Heres the feed on VPNs from easy to hard difficulty.
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