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Re:UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs by rthomas6 on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:40PM (#23876821)
How does that help? If you're the only one with traffic from that IP, how does that give any privacy? Especially if you pay with something tied to your identity. And why does a VPS have any less likelihood of logging your traffic?
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Re:UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs by nullc on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:46PM (#23876881)
> Especially if you pay with something tied to your identity.

Then don't do that.

Though VPN are not really a strong solution for hiding your identity period. Tor is a more effective tool, but hiding your identity is extremely difficult to do effectively.

> And why does a VPS have any less likelihood of logging your traffic?

They may be too but at least you should expect their business to be viable without doing that, which is better than you can say for VPN services.

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Re:UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs by serf on Friday July 17, 2020 @07:35PM (#23877311)
>Then don't do that.

You'll be stuck with the shadiest, slowest, most remote VPS in the world if you're unwilling to either give up your personal identity, or lie about it.

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Re:UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs by rmrfrmrf on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:45PM (#23876874)
it's good for things like public wifi and other untrusted networks since your data is encrypted from your machine to the vpn server
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Re:UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs by fishywang on Friday July 17, 2020 @07:26PM (#23877227)
it's 2020. if you're still relying on vpn connection to provide encryption, you are doing it wrong. (I understand there are certain cases you have to deal with unencrypted traffic, but those should be really rare now).
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Re:UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs by rmrfrmrf on Saturday July 18, 2020 @12:24PM (#23882472)
you don't have any control of what protocols your apps use and if they're encrypted or not
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Re:UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs by fishywang on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:09PM (#23886171)
If you are talking about apps, recent versions of Android and iOS both deny apps to use unencrypted connections, with only a few exceptions (like browsers)
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