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Since you mention nord vpn… it’s also annoying that content creators seem to think a vpn I’d something that keeps your passwords safe.
They’re almost definitely shilling something they don’t even know what it does.
I think nord offers a password manager alongside the vpn now, which is where that comes from. But yea, I hate the way vpns are always presented in those ads. I think most people now know the word "vpn" but most still don't know what it actually means, but think they do.
Many students in my IT class think that a VPN is just "that thing that encrypts your Internet".
As someone who works in tech, I feel like the sales pitch for VPNs is snakeoil for the average person. All you're doing is trading out your own ISP spying on you for another ISP who can spy on you. I know I have rights if my ISP spies on me in my own country, but if my traffic is all egressing via a foreign country, I may have zero privacy rights in that country.
If you need to hide your torrenting activity, just use a seedbox. If you need to hide from the NSA, none of this is going to help you. And TLS basically does the rest.
Same with DNS-over-HTTPS - the DNS server is where they're going to be spying on you!
I never understood seedboxes. A VPN on my own hardware works nicely. I hate cloud stuff. With a seedbox I'd have limited storage and would need to constantly pay monthly fees for it. Instead, I can just use my own hard drives on my own hardware.
https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative/