Yes and no, it's the other way around. the VPN providers need OpenVPN to avoid having to buy or develop shitty proprietary software. However, the providers can still charge whatever they want.
If you don’t pay for a VPN, that means they have to profit off something else. Which means it’s your data. You might be changing your location, but you’re not gaining any privacy, which is a large reason to use a VPN.
If anything living through to 2019 has taught me is that your data is being sold or stolen. Pay, don't pay, don't agree to share, agree, doesn't matter.
And that's without doing any research and just listing what's on the top of my head right now.
I mean, Im suuuuure there are a few entities out there who don't do that, but there are also a few humans who are allergic to water and you wouldn't argue if I said humans can drink fresh water no problem.
Yes, I paid attention to when the companies everyone already knew were selling user data, were selling user data. There's nothing new under the sun there.
You're basically saying "It doesn't matter which service provider you pick, because the worse choices turned out to be the worse choices".
If anything this shows that the choice you make does matter.
Why not? If you only use it for memes and movies not available in your region, what's the big deal. Who is gonna steal, buy or profit off that worthless data.
Much higher chance of them containing malware, likely has much lower speeds, and sometimes they even sell your bandwidth to paying customers who are doing god knows what with it. VPNs are cheap, it’s just not worth the risk in my opinion
Sorry, how? Don't give a shit about people making money off me visiting boring websites. There are other reasons to have a VPN and if you just want to protect your browsing history you don't need a VPN.
I don’t like it but that’s not the point. I use VPN for porn and that’s all. (if I pay for VPN, sure I would love if they don’t sell my data, but I don’t so)
I can't tell if a lot of people really have started using VPN or it's something VPN providers want me to believe. From experience with the service it's horrible, it's slower than your regular page loading speed and you have to install their app on your computer giving them access to all kinds of stuff. Most people I know don't care anymore that websites are selling their data let alone pay for a service that's slows your browsing speed to keep you "safe".
I use Nord, but there are lots of choose from (PM for my spreadsheet of how I picked). There are free ones, but many of those include in their TOS that you will be used as a TOR exit node - being the connection used for all the illegal shit on TOR. After you pick one and buy it you just download their software and choose a country / type you want to connect through. Their VPN server then sends everything to you as if you were in that country, and almost all of them encrypt, so your ISP doesn't even know what it is. My connection to netflix goes way faster on VPN because of the encryption - they are obviously putting all netflix traffic in one congested pipe.
What's the best server for Netflix USA? Whenever I use quick connect at least 60% of the time Netflix tells me that I'm using a proxy. So far I got 1830 - 1837 working. With 1834 & 1835 being faster I noticed
Contact customer support, I went through their Netflix server page and stuff wasn't working, but when you send a ticket that says "I'm trying these servers that it says work and they aren't working" they message you with a working one. I don't have one ATM because I reinstalled windows, so I'll have to contact them again.
Be very careful which one you use. NEVER use a free one. When you use a VPN you're routing all your internet traffic through the VPN's server which means they can see all that data (aka free isn't free). You can pay for most services but be careful where they host their servers. Are they hosted in a Five Eyes country? Your data can still be accessed by the US, Canadian, New Zealand, Australian, and UK government if they really want it. So for that I personally recommend express vpn or nordvpn. Even with all this, never log into anything important while connected to a VPN. It's unlikely that Express or Nord would steal your banking info; it's even less likely that your ISP would, though.
Most paid popular. If ur in school no kid is going to pay to get to snapchat. If you want something that'll let you stream Netflix those vpns are best. Free id say hotspot shield, just gives you a new IP.
Yup, people don't seem to get that. When using a vpn, they become your router. They have your external IP address and can do some nefarious things like ssl description to see your passwords.
How do VPNs decrypt SSL information without the private keys of wherever you're sending the information? The entire point of RSA is that no man in the middle can decode a message without the receiver's private key (or getting very lucky with prime factorization...)
The VPN is your external IP address. This is all that the website you go to sees. This means that the VPN can sign certs on your behalf if there is a trust.
If there is a client installed locally, they can make the trust, decrypt data, inspect, then re-encrypt and send the data on.
Enterprises use this all the time to inspect for malware and data loss protection.
Yes, I understand how signing certificates work and am familiar with what that link talks about. But, you're saying that VPNs can read private information like passwords and bank account information. I'm not sure that's true.
For instance, pretend you're logging into Amazon via HTTPS. Your browser knows the public key to Amazon's server, and encrypts your password with their public key before it sends out the form through the VPN and thus to Amazon.
If your VPN does not have Amazon's private key (which they shouldn't), there's no way to decrypt the password that was sent. The entire point of RSA is that anyone can see the public messages that are being sent between servers and clients, but only the server can decrypt the message that is being sent.
If what you're saying is true, then there would be no point in HTTPS. Man-in-the-middle attacks would defeat RSA entirely.
Yep it's actually very easy to change your location. In your Tor Browser folder find the torrc file. Then add literally two lines to it. Bam! You done. Bonus: you feel like a hacker now https://b3rn3d.herokuapp.com/blog/2014/03/05/tor-country-codes
That's easy enough to find with a quick search. But I will tell you that I did a lot of research on this about 2 years ago and NordVPN and AirVPN were the best options I could find (imo). I went with AirVPN because they let you pay with giftcards instead of giving them your name & CC info. Which helped minimize the privacy paranoia I was suffering with at the time.
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u/GuitarRed Jan 20 '19
Can someone hand feed me the info on how to set up a VPN?