• squiblet@kbin.social
    103·
    1 year ago

    To me, the problem is you are instead giving over all of your info to the VPN company, and still be tracked by other means such as fingerprinting of devices, cookies/site data or browsing patterns. Is some random VPN company more trustworthy than my ISP and who’s to say they aren’t sharing the information? Plus, the could also be subpoenaed/NSLed if that’s the concern.

    • howrar@lemmy.ca
      11·
      1 year ago

      I’d be more willing to trust a VPN company with this data than an ISP. The former’s entire business hinges on providing privacy to their customers while the latter can just sell your data to whoever they want and most people wouldn’t bat an eye.

      • squiblet@kbin.social
        21·
        1 year ago

        I’d have plenty of questions about the VPN company though. Some of these would be the same as ISPs, some worse for VPN companies.

        • do we know if they’re compromised by our government or a foreign government?
        • Are their systems actually secure?
        • do they explicitly share data with a government, like they may be forced to?
        • do they sell data and just lie about it?
        • do they actually log data and lie about not logging or deleting it?
        • what if they do something like an exit scam where it turns out they did collect all your info, and then sell it before they close up shop?
        • howrar@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 year ago

          Legitimate questions, but why would it be worse for VPN companies?

          The way I see it, I have no way of verifying the answers to any of these regardless of whether it’s an ISP or a VPN, but I do know that VPNs have a greater incentive to provide you with proper privacy because if they were found to fail at this, the entire business dies. ISPs run no such risk, especially since many of them are effectively monopolies.