A VPN isn’t going to protect you from malware or trackers. I’m not sure how they can get away with this marketing.

If you want to boost your security focus on your web browser

  • Melllvar
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    151 year ago

    I thought the ‘security’ angle was just a smokescreen anyway. Isn’t it actually for accessing region-locked media?

      • Björn Tantau
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        21 year ago

        Nowadays everything is encrypted by default. You don’t get additional security with a VPN.

          • @tsz@lemmy.world
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            31 year ago

            Name a popular service that isn’t encrypted but using it might expose you in a legitimate way.

        • @terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          11 year ago

          Well, not really with these, per se. My own VPN, Wireguard, routes back through my pihole service to double down on it’s filtering. For the most, I’m not trying to obfuscate my ip. If I wanted to do that I’d use tor or something. I just don’t want my traffic to be easily snooped on when I’m connected to wifi that isn’t mine.

    • Norgur
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      51 year ago

      Well, if you access things on the internet you could be sued for, your IP will not appear in the logs of your ISP or the webserver you connected to.

      • Melllvar
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        1 year ago

        Sure. But they can’t advertise on that point. So they claim it’s for malware and tracking protection even though that makes no sense.