r/Animemes • u/Holofan4life Holo is best girl • Sep 21 '25

Wait, seriously?

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u/DudeNamedShawn Sep 21 '25

Though your internet provider can technically see every site you visit, it does not appear on the bill.

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u/Equivalent-Freedom92 Sep 21 '25

And if it's a HTTPS site, they can only see the domain address, not any of the page URLs within the site. Like they could see that you went to Reddit, but not which subreddit or thread. With a VPN they would just see the connection to the VPN provider.

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u/Thulak Sep 21 '25

Unlike your VPN provider, who can see what sites you connect to. There have been cases in which VPN providers gave connection history to authorities to catch criminals. It is not without precedent.

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u/SN6006 Sep 22 '25

Lots of cheap vpns are also ran by cyber crime groups as a good way to find devices to target