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Re:Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Dail... by meowfly on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:56PM (#24974459)
I'm still not sure what the VPN fallacy is, and I'm asking genuinely trying to understand.

If someone goes into private mode (and tor becomes enabled) and visits a site, wouldn't the owners of that site have less information on that person than if they visited from their own IP address?

What exactly is the fallacy here?

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Re:Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Dail... by mulmen on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @01:41AM (#24977014)
The VPN provider knows everything you're doing. You aren't automatically anonymous because you use a VPN, you just shifted the party that gets to inspect your traffic.
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Re:Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Dail... by gsich on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:00PM (#24974496)
The fallacy that a VPN suddenly protects your privacy. While the IP is a data point used in tracking it's not the only one.
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Re:Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Dail... by d1zzy on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:27PM (#24975045)
Case in point: https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Look for the fingerprinting result.

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Re:Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Dail... by huffmsa on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:35AM (#24977991)
Nothing to do with actual private mode / Tor.

It's that you're "safe" because big bad mega corp isn't seeing your DNS traffic or in this case they aren't sending you ads.

But you've traded big bad mega corp for up and coming bad mega corp2, so you're not really any safer.

Not sure I agree with that in this case.

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