• rando@lemmy.ml
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      7 days ago

      This is how it’s feeling like, last few weeks. I’ll somehow need to justify keeping my proton plan

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        7 days ago

        Yeah I’m in the same boat, I mostly use the VPN I wonder what security it actualy gives now.

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          7 days ago

          It never gave you any, that claim that every VPN provider makes about security and privacy is mostly false. It saves you from like two types of attacks that are so specific I can almost guarantee you you never encountered them in the wild. They also make it 10% harder for your local provider to keep tabs on you at the expense of introducing another very specific ledger of everything you do, that belongs to a trump loving company apparently, and unlike your ISP they are legallly allowed to do whatever they want with it.
          It’s not what VPN is for.

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            6 days ago

            Mine do protect me very well for what I’m using it for. They have to break Swiss law to not to.

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                4 days ago

                You said VPNs are not useful, right? Or so I understood it. It’s just so that my VPN is definitely useful for me in a couple of usecases.

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                  2 days ago

                  No, that’s not what I said, I said that commercial companies make a lot of misleading claims about their products and about what naked VPN does.
                  And I’m curious about your application and how does it provide security to you