I've never had or used a VPN and I'm looking for real world experience from people more knowledgeable than I. I'm Canadian and I have a small Christian Youtube channel. Some weird things have been happening over here lately with it and I'm wondering about something... Would a VPN make it impossible for anyone (gov't included) to see where my channel originates from (country wise)? I already know it makes my internet activity impossible to follow. Any thoughts or help on choosing the best VPN will be greatly appreciated.
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go setup a cloud pc, configure it as a vpn, connect one of your devices and see how much protection you really have.
vpn provider != internet service provider. and im not talking about your isp.
youre trying way to hard to convince me vpns are anonymous. you are still at the mercy of those with physical access, thats why trust comes into play.
ps; my wife said hi
You know you lost when you have to stoop to insults
im really surprised that you were able to spin up a VM and conduct the mentioned test, all within an hour. now thats fucking impressive
correct, but does it know that you connected to a VPN?
if yes, can they see the IP of the VPN provider?
if yes, can authorities walk up the chain? meaning they went to your ISP, your ISP said you were connected to ABC VPN
if yes, does ABC VPN keep logs?
if no, whats stopping ABC VPN from monitoring your traffic (not logging, monitoring, as in they control the other side of the tunnel, they see whats comming out)
[You]
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│ Encrypted VPN tunnel
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[VPN Server] ───> (VPN logs: IP assigned, time connected)
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│ Traffic exits to internet, decrypted, i see it all
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[Destination Website / Service]
I work in IT at a large MSP. We maintain VPN servers to facilitate working from home. We can see what sites our clients visit, hell, we can block certain sites, which we do for compliance purposes, and we can do that because we control the end of the tunnel.
Your networking degree is fucking worthless if you cant comprehend that.
The fact that a VPN provider can enable logging on a vpn server at all is evidence that your traffic is decrypted on their end, otherwise wtf is it logging?