I understand why people would want to use a VPN to change their location and access region-specific content. I also understand that it is a good way of hiding your activity from your internet provider, but aren’t you just re-routing your connection via the VPN provider’s network?
Is this inherently better for data privacy? Or are you just choosing to trust somebody else (the VPN provider vs your internet provider) with your data?
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Let’s say you visit 25 different websites today.
Normally, you would trust your Internet Service Provider (ISP), which would know every site you visit. Plus, you kind of trust each of the 25 different websites, but each website only knows that you visited that particular website; they don’t know about the other sites. (Disregarding things like tracking cookies).
With a VPN, you trust your VPN provider, which knows every site you visit. Your ISP knows that you’re talking to your VPN but nothing else. The websites don’t know that you’re requesting a page from them; they see a request from the VPN instead of from you. (Unless you log in using your username or whatever.)
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