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by CiPHPerCoder 3670 days ago
None. VPNs can't provide any meaningful privacy: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29

Okay, that's not entirely true; I do access a company VPN, but not for privacy purposes which is probably what's implied. I use Tor for that.

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A lot of people use it to bypass geoblocking, just like the link advised to use vpn for, but I don't understand how come people trust random vpns with the http/plaintext data. Do I understand wrong how vpn/encryption works? It's just like telling random person every site and text you type with http.