[remarkEon]

I don’t have the time right now to do this, but someone with it (and probably more technical experience than me in that field) should write up a no BS guise to what these popular VPN services really are offering. It’s been hard, over the last couple months especially it seems, to wade through all the new products these companies are constantly dropping in this space.

[jlgaddis]

Tom Scott recently made an video [0] you might be interested in. It's well worth the seven and a half minutes to watch it, IMO.

> I tried to write a more honest VPN commercial. The sponsor wasn't happy about it.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

[remarkEon]

Thanks for this

[humblebee]

My naive understanding of these common service VPNs is they provide privacy (when properly configured) from a physical network. Otherwise they aren't much different than an IPS. Once on the other end, everyone still know who you are. They don't provide privacy on the internet.

[kossae]

Something like this may suffice: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#simple-vpn-comparison