Well yeah and that is why i usually do not recommend VPNs to people or rather against them. Hot take maybe but I think using Nextdns is more useful than having a vpn.
Okay.
We both know it totally depends on why one may want to use a VPN. It has its use cases for which only a VPN is a solution. And for that, Tor is practically useless for everyday use so a VPN has to be the recommendation - to obfuscate your internet connection from your ISP or your government’s prying eyes. Plus, to access the open internet where censorship is the law.
So, knowing all this how do you by default (as I read and understand your statements) not recommend VPNs to folks without knowing the purpose for which they may be considering it in the first place?
Hot take sure, but not really valid all the time.
Using a VPN is just changing the trust from your ISP to the VPN provider. Use TLS and all the ISP knows is what servers you connect with.
If you live in a place where that that is a concern or if you are being censored I guess a VPN could be useful (knowning that they will know you use it).
Given i live in Europe this is not a realisitc concern to people and people just want privacy from adversising companies and move on with life.
But this is all going very off topic of the video. The point is that most people here just want to be secure and have privacy from annoying ads. A VPN doesn’t help there.
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you should be using Tor as much as possible imo
in this context: IP addresses and hostnames
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