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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The main purpose of a VPN is to appear as if you are in a different country, and to access content that is available there, but not where you actually are. Think: watching some specific Netflix series, etc.
The second one is to cover your IP address for downloading from illegal sites, or file sharing in networks. Though I wouldn’t rely too much on this, if I was you.
Of course, they can not say that in their ads. That’s why they come up with “data privacy”.
If you don’t know how a VPN works, and what kind of data this covers and more importantly, what it doesn’t, then a VPN is not going to help you with your privacy. It will still let you watch these Netflix series that haven’t been released in your home country, though.
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