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Do You Really Need a VPN?

CC-BY-SA 2021 Ben Goldberg

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What is a VPN?

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Does a VPN Make you More Secure?

Not Really

  • DNS
  • Plain Text http

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Do VPNs increase Privacy?

Somewhat

  • Downloading Legal Files
  • Prevent IPS Tracking

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They’ll Still Get You

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Bypassing Region Locks

VPN can do this

Won’t always work

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What should you do?

If you need a VPN use Mullvad or Proton VPN

If they run ads, don’t use them

If you care about privacy check out https://privacyguides.org/

Privacy is complicated and hard, there’s “no one size fits all”, “just click this button and done” privacy solutions that work