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by thegrim000 814 days ago
I find it so insane that people think the major VPN providers aren't all completely compromised one way or the other. As if you're really going to be able to just pass your traffic through such a business and they're going to actually keep no logs, and not have secret deals made with intelligence agencies, and aren't unknowingly completely insided/compromised by intelligence agencies. As if you can just push your traffic through a major VPN and intelligence agencies would just go "well shucks, oh man, they sure got us, we'll never know who it was, foiled again".
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> I find it so insane that people think the major VPN providers aren't all completely compromised one way or the other.

For 99.9% of people a VPN is just something they use to access something in another country or because some YouTube ad scared them into believing you need a VPN as soon as you step into a coffee shop.

The threat model of most people does not include state actors or intelligence actors and they just don’t care.