VPN security is BAD

[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?