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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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Thx for replying. Would you expand on the idea why VPN wouldn't help with increasing the person's privacy?
BTW, I have tried logging in using Tor. It pretty much works normally but slightly more slowly. Of course, Tor throws more fits depending on how the connection is created, so you are right, I personally would hate having to use it regularly.
Depends on who you are trying to hide from and what exactly you are trying to hide
For each scenario, there are different minimum security levels you need to maintain.
If you don't want to let your ISP know you are visiting Lemmy and if you don't want the lemmy admin know where you are from, a VPN is great.
However, if you are participating in an anarchist instance planning to ๐ฃa place, a VPN is not enough since the feds can force a VPN company to let them know who exactly is using a certain IP at a certain time.
Rule of thumb; don't do shit on public forums.
Thank you. That's a very nice summary.
Xavier summarised it fairly well. VPN isn't going to help with entities that are actively trying to track you. You might be able to outwit Facebook trackers/Google trackers or something with some clever user agent manipulation/ faking your browser ID and a VPN, but that's the extent of it.