FarLine99@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-211 months agoWhat VPN do you use to hide traffic from your ISP?upload.wikimedia.orgimagemessage-square248fedilinkarrow-up1173arrow-down111
arrow-up1162arrow-down1imageWhat VPN do you use to hide traffic from your ISP?upload.wikimedia.orgFarLine99@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-211 months agomessage-square248fedilink
minus-squareoff_brand_@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoSsl will hide the contents but not the metadata. It’s easy enough to build a profile on you just by understanding what sites you visit.
minus-squareArose8334@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoCorrect. But a VPN provider can also build a profile on that metadata, and transparency is often lacking in the VPN business. I live in a country with fairly good privacy laws for now and much prefer my ISP to have my metadata than someone else.
minus-squareFarLine99@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoYou are lucky in this regard 🙂
Ssl will hide the contents but not the metadata. It’s easy enough to build a profile on you just by understanding what sites you visit.
Correct. But a VPN provider can also build a profile on that metadata, and transparency is often lacking in the VPN business. I live in a country with fairly good privacy laws for now and much prefer my ISP to have my metadata than someone else.
You are lucky in this regard 🙂