VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies

Re:VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies by homero on Saturday July 06, 2019 @06:43AM (#20368994)

VPNs are the best data mining solution out there. You're literally giving them all traffic plus using their DNS. TLS helps a lot now but DNS hurts.

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Re:VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies by mercora on Saturday July 06, 2019 @06:57AM (#20369020)

better yet it makes it really easy to pinpoint traffic to a single person despite all other measurements to make this harder. I would guess being an IP transit provider would be a lot more beneficial for them otherwise with regards to the amount of traffic they would handle....

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Re:VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies by Fnoord on Saturday July 06, 2019 @03:35PM (#20371425)

If you tunnel 0.0.0.0/0 or equiv through it, sure. You don't have to, though.

I just run my own VPN server on my cable internet. It allows all my roaming devices Pi-Hole access, and the same privacy as my cable internet.

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Re:VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies by novok on Saturday July 06, 2019 @04:12PM (#20371643)

And that is different from your ISP how? The distribution is less international?

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Re:VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies by homero on Sunday July 07, 2019 @10:25AM (#20375203)

There's nuances. ISP is whole household, VPN is device. ISP has a business, VPN might be interested in selling data especially the many free ones. You can VPN over ISP but can't hide VPN on VPN.

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