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by mattip 4634 days ago
From a naive reading of their privacy policy [0] it seems they also keep a history of sites visited, and make this available to third parties. That doesn't sound like "anonymizing your locality" except to your local ISP, and only if your local ISP or government never asks PureVPN for the info.

[0]http://www.purevpn.com/privacy-policy.php
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tmikaeld 4634 days ago
I have said this time and time again, the only way to be properly safe when using a VPN is if the supplier can guarantee that NO logs at all are saved - of course, no one can guarantee that without showing you the system.

Setting up your own private fully encrypted (Harddrive) OpenVPN is quite easy and the only "secure" alternative.

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hack37 4634 days ago
>> Setting up your own private fully encrypted (Harddrive) OpenVPN is quite easy and the only "secure" alternative.

You are misunderstanding the reason people use these services. They use it to stay anonymous because many people use it and it is harder to distinguish what traffic belongs to what user.

If you setup your own vpn server, encrypted or not, it defeats that purpose because one could just listen on the other end.

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