Chad Waters via plug on 8 Mar 2023 13:20:04 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] VPN Recommendation


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On Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 at 3:12 PM, Casey Bralla via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

I'd like to be more anonymous when I surf the web. I assume that using
a VPN should be part of my strategy.

Anybody have a recommendation for a VPN?


Protonmail, the privacy-minded Swiss email provider, now offers ProtonVPN clients for most OSes/platforms. The free version gives you handful of endpoints in the USA, Netherlands, and Japan. A paid version gives you more options.

As you stated it should be "PART" of your strategy. A "VPN" in this definition is really just a network "wormhole". Its protecting you against ISP/Hotspot data collection, but it doesn't protect you against client fingerprinting (browser signature/3rd party cookies, etc). Also, if I was an entity that wanted to snoop interesting data-  traffic that exits a VPN endpoint would be high value. 

-Chad





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