Lol, you get real advice from an expert and people give so many down votes.
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2021
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dIdD V knoU thAt XXPRzz BPN can netfliX othR kaUNTRY????
Isn't that the thing they're actually useful for?
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And hiding which sites you browse from your ISP. And also with torrents ig.
But the VPN provider can see it and they could just do the same thing your ISP would have done
Checkout dVPN's (distributed VPN's).
That's true, but dvpn is still in trouble. take mysterium, for example, there is no easy way to top-up your balance, and, since, people host relays by using free bandwidth, speed and quality varies a lot from relay to relay.
I personally self-host OpenVPN on a Rasberry Pi 4, but Tor is really the best. I feel like a VPN can only really protect your privacy when it is 100% under your control.
I do too, but it's on my home network, so wouldn't my ISP still know what sites I'm going to?
The problem with tor is that it is very slow. currently isp’s offer 1Gb/s connections. what is the point of this speed when tor limits it to ~1-5Mbps.