John Marwood
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Hacked off here - any point spending any money on a VPN?
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Anyone here use a VPN? Do they work?
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Alan B'Stard
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I use https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/
works well, does not seem to affect my download speed.
A couple of quid a month to have private surfing seems reasonable.
works well, does not seem to affect my download speed.
A couple of quid a month to have private surfing seems reasonable.
John Marwood
I ♥ cryptic crosswords
Thanks for replying - in case you were not already aware I am a buffoon. So..will this stop my computer from being hacked/taken over?
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tek-monkey
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I think it depends exactly what your problem is. A VPN is to hide who you are from people who may be watching, for whatever reason (
). It wont stop a virus or any spyware in most cases, because you yourself have navigated to where the spyware is so you found it. Does that make sense?
I don't use a VPN yet, but I've been thinking about it lately. All my usenet traffic is encrypted, so when I'm being a naughty pirate they can't tell what my pr0n preferences are, but they can still see I was doing 'something'.
). It wont stop a virus or any spyware in most cases, because you yourself have navigated to where the spyware is so you found it. Does that make sense?I don't use a VPN yet, but I've been thinking about it lately. All my usenet traffic is encrypted, so when I'm being a naughty pirate they can't tell what my pr0n preferences are, but they can still see I was doing 'something'.
John Marwood
I ♥ cryptic crosswords
I think it depends exactly what your problem is. A VPN is to hide who you are from people who may be watching, for whatever reason (
I don't use a VPN yet, but I've been thinking about it lately. All my usenet traffic is encrypted, so when I'm being a naughty pirate they can't tell what my pr0n preferences are, but they can still see I was doing 'something'.
Thanks - yes the first bit made sense . The second part was in Mandarin yes?
Alan B'Stard
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Not at all. This just allows privacy of my activity online. All my ISP can see is the amount of bandwidth I consume and not actually the stuff that is coming down the line.
I download lots of Linux distributions for testing.
Honest, Guv.
MyCult
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I have vyprvpn but I only use it for browsing. For all other activity I use Privacy.IO because they keep no records at all and I appear with an IP Address from either Sweden or Netherlands. Both those countries have favourable views on copyright.
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