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172 sats \ 7 replies \ @brunenzio 23h \ on: Who is more trustworthy: your ISP or your VPN? privacy
An argument toward VPN is that their whole business is related to how much people trust them, while ISP do not need this because their business rests on basic internet availability.
However, this line of reasoning is based on rational behaviour and good faith, which means it will likely not be a good model of reality.
Exactly! At the end of the day, a VPN could sell you out/leak your data just as much as your ISP.
Main difference is that with a VPN you send a signal saying that your willing to pay something to try to keep your ISP from seeing what you are doing.
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Not just my ISP, but the sites I am visiting to not know where I am from.
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valid point! so a VPN does provide this service for their customers: keeping the customer's ip address hidden from sites they visit.
I wonder why ISP's don't offer this as a service?
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The only thing I trust about my ISP is their incompetence and lack of interest in what I access. Even so, I tend to trust the VPN company more because of their entire business model, especially if the payment is via LN.
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because their upstream connections are optimized for high throughput and low latency. to be a good VPN one must run servers in all corners of the world. the best ones offer split tunneling and lan isolation, so their apps must run locally on your devices.
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Of course it can, and sometimes it definitely does (that's a gut feeling induced by simple inference from standard behaviour on tech space).
However, VPNs are also used for work reasons, so I believe ISPs can not discriminate between the case of someone wanting to hide and someone who use VPNs for work, and thus don't pay much attention to whoever use it. Actually, I don't even know how the ISP can know you are using a VPN, so I realize I am writing almost meaningless words.
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You don't need to run faster than a grizzly bear to survive. You just need to run faster than the next guy. My security model assumes that if my VPN provider leaks, it won't be my data. So I will have time to jump ship.
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