VPN security is BAD

Dakingof

I would love an option to keep the browser from connecting to any website until plugins are loaded and active.

Multiple times I've been banned from websites because the website loaded before my plugin did and my real IP was exposed. Why not have an option for nothing to load until all data is tunneled?

It seems so simple but it seems none of the browsers have done it.

Can we have another option please Vivaldi?!?

Catweazle

@Dakingof , an extension can only start working, after the browser, that's why a VPN as an extension can never really hide your IP, by creating the tunnel after the browser connects to the network.
To hide your IP there is no other than a VPN connects before the browser, that is, a desktop VPN service.
NordVPN or ExpressVPN are recommended, if you want good paid VPN and Windscribe or Proton if you want free VPNs that work.

Priest72

VPN is a curious concept and perhaps gives the illusion of privacy as your data is just going to the chosen VPN provider so i never saw the benefit unless you were on a public wifi connection but then who would be silly enough to conduct sensitive web business on such a connection and i am of the opinion that public wifi providers should at the minimum provide VPN as a standard.

Catweazle

@Priest72 , doing important business, banking and moving sensitive data using public WiFi is reckless anyway, with or without VPN.

Priest72

@Catweazle if high privacy was a concern then i perhaps would consider TOR as an option but the exit nodes are unencypted so security would be weak but privacy may be higher but then TOR users stick out like a sore thumb.

Catweazle

@Priest72 , it's also a common mistake to believe that TOR protects privacy more, it doesn't if you use it without a good VPN.
Apart from navigating with TOR on the normal network you have to have quite a few masochistic inclinations.
If you want to make sensitive movements over a public WiFi network, you have no choice but to use a VPN and use encryption services. Already, although they can't easily track you through the VPN, if they can intercept what you're doing while on a open public network.

Streptococcus

The purpose of a VPN is to encrypt your communication, not to hide your location. If you want to hide your location, you need something like Tor or an anonymous proxy service.

Priest72

@Streptococcus yes i know that but any sensitive surfing would be done on an encrypted connection anyway so that does not convince me using VPN is any better.

Alice87

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Catweazle

@Streptococcus , If I want, I am also able with Vivaldi, even from Android to hide my location., checked in Browserleaks, where I appear even in Japan according to the analysis.
Official agencies may have the possibility to locating me through my ISP, but a hacker certainly does not.
I don't need TOR for this, with a simple app in Android, which generates Fake Locations or an extension like CyDec on the Desktop is enough.

greybeard

@Catweazle said in VPN security is BAD:

@Streptococcus , If I want, I am also able with Vivaldi, even from Android to hide my location., checked in Browserleaks, where I appear even in Japan according to the analysis.
Official agencies may have the possibility to locating me through my ISP, but a hacker certainly does not.
I don't need TOR for this, with a simple app in Android, which generates Fake Locations or an extension like CyDec on the Desktop is enough.

And set your Settings > Startpage to Speed Dial, or your own page and let that load with the extensions. Then exit the page > Clear Browsing Data and off you go with no History and all extensions loaded.

Catweazle

@greybeard , as I said, I have the option of staying private without VPN and TOR, but if I do that, it only works for the price that half of the pages I visit do not work.
I am not so paranoid about this and I only use it very occasionally, for example on a public WiFi and only if I access important sites.

code3

@Catweazle I don’t know what you’re talking about, Tor is to hide IP not country. Was it a VPN?