FarLine99@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agoWhat VPN do you use to hide traffic from your ISP?upload.wikimedia.orgimagemessage-square252fedilinkarrow-up1173arrow-down110
arrow-up1163arrow-down1imageWhat VPN do you use to hide traffic from your ISP?upload.wikimedia.orgFarLine99@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square252fedilink
minus-squareoff_brand_@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoSsl will hide the contents but not the metadata. It’s easy enough to build a profile on you just by understanding what sites you visit.
minus-squareArose8334@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoCorrect. But a VPN provider can also build a profile on that metadata, and transparency is often lacking in the VPN business. I live in a country with fairly good privacy laws for now and much prefer my ISP to have my metadata than someone else.
Ssl will hide the contents but not the metadata. It’s easy enough to build a profile on you just by understanding what sites you visit.
Correct. But a VPN provider can also build a profile on that metadata, and transparency is often lacking in the VPN business. I live in a country with fairly good privacy laws for now and much prefer my ISP to have my metadata than someone else.
You are lucky in this regard 🙂