VPNs appeal specifically to those who are privacy-minded and do not want their online activities tracked.
What better way to spy on these people than by channeling them through a single service and lulling them into a false sense of security by slapping a pricetag on said service?
Which is why I don't even bother. The Feds already have a dossier on me from my Naval time. Can't even leave the country and come back in without being sequestered for questioning. If they really want me, they know where to find me. But...
I do nothing wrong, so there's no reason for them to.
VPN services are for paranoid people. If they're really tracking you, VPN isn't going to stop them. Don't waste your money, unless you like watching streaming services from other regions.
These adds seem to ubiquitously prey on people's ignorance. They push anonymity on the web to low computer literacy people who will jump on the net with all their trackers and cookies on and then log straight into Facebook with their VPN.
They don't explain what the product is in these advertisements or how it works, why you would need it or how to effectively use it. They don't discuss the practical uses for a VPN which are limited, they just throw it around as some sort of panacea for the internet and wax poetically about not being tracked, like using the VPN alone will fix it.
If your workplace, say, had its own computer network and one day you needed to access that network from home you could install a cable between your home and your workplace and get access that way.
However, some bright spark realised that if both your home and your workplace were connected to the Internet then that wire already existed albeit in a complicated way. What was needed was a way to use that open Internet link in a private way so that you were virtually connected directly to your work network. That is what VPN was for.
Since then, people have started marketing it as a privacy system. What happens is that they create some networks and servers that you can link to using VPN. It then looks as if you are working on that network which could be in a different country. I use one to access US-only websites from the UK, for instance.
The question is, how much do you trust those sites that you connect to? They may be trustworthy or they could even be a three letter agency honeypot. How would you know?
VPNs appeal specifically to those who are privacy-minded and do not want their online activities tracked.
What better way to spy on these people than by channeling them through a single service and lulling them into a false sense of security by slapping a pricetag on said service?
Exactly. Seems like a perfectly-tailored honey trap
McAfee is that you?
Which is why I don't even bother. The Feds already have a dossier on me from my Naval time. Can't even leave the country and come back in without being sequestered for questioning. If they really want me, they know where to find me. But...
I do nothing wrong, so there's no reason for them to.
VPNs are a waste.
You'd probably need some fancy hardware to really prevent tracking
VPN services are for paranoid people. If they're really tracking you, VPN isn't going to stop them. Don't waste your money, unless you like watching streaming services from other regions.
The question that is most interesting in this regard: whom are their mothers ....
aka .... trackers/ hackers ...
These adds seem to ubiquitously prey on people's ignorance. They push anonymity on the web to low computer literacy people who will jump on the net with all their trackers and cookies on and then log straight into Facebook with their VPN.
They don't explain what the product is in these advertisements or how it works, why you would need it or how to effectively use it. They don't discuss the practical uses for a VPN which are limited, they just throw it around as some sort of panacea for the internet and wax poetically about not being tracked, like using the VPN alone will fix it.
The adds seem dishonest, you are correct.
VPN stands for Virtual Private Network.
If your workplace, say, had its own computer network and one day you needed to access that network from home you could install a cable between your home and your workplace and get access that way.
However, some bright spark realised that if both your home and your workplace were connected to the Internet then that wire already existed albeit in a complicated way. What was needed was a way to use that open Internet link in a private way so that you were virtually connected directly to your work network. That is what VPN was for.
Since then, people have started marketing it as a privacy system. What happens is that they create some networks and servers that you can link to using VPN. It then looks as if you are working on that network which could be in a different country. I use one to access US-only websites from the UK, for instance.
The question is, how much do you trust those sites that you connect to? They may be trustworthy or they could even be a three letter agency honeypot. How would you know?