Sorry for my caution, but I’ve seen too many people, even in my country with good privacy laws, “anonymise” their online activity using a VPN provider like Express or Nord that required them to fill in even more personal data than ISPs are allowed, here. When using Nord’s trial, I also noticed they send usage data of the PC and Android applications to a Google domain. I’m sure others do this, as well. Basically, they didn’t assess their threat model nor how the proposed solutions approach their threat model, they just bought into the scaremongering of those VPN providers’ advertising tactics.
That said, there are good reasons to connect to a VPN depending on your country’s laws and the type of online behaviour, and anonymising services such as VPNs that do keep you anonymous (Mullvad and Proton require little to no personal information, and allow you to pay by Monero or sometimes cash)
I’ve just grown a bit skeptic of people always connected to VPN, is all.
Okay that’s good to know!
Sorry for my caution, but I’ve seen too many people, even in my country with good privacy laws, “anonymise” their online activity using a VPN provider like Express or Nord that required them to fill in even more personal data than ISPs are allowed, here. When using Nord’s trial, I also noticed they send usage data of the PC and Android applications to a Google domain. I’m sure others do this, as well. Basically, they didn’t assess their threat model nor how the proposed solutions approach their threat model, they just bought into the scaremongering of those VPN providers’ advertising tactics.
That said, there are good reasons to connect to a VPN depending on your country’s laws and the type of online behaviour, and anonymising services such as VPNs that do keep you anonymous (Mullvad and Proton require little to no personal information, and allow you to pay by Monero or sometimes cash)
I’ve just grown a bit skeptic of people always connected to VPN, is all.