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  • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlI answered: Are VPNs essential?
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    11 days ago
    • making the introduction about the topic itself
    • today, all traffic is encrypted. You do not need a vpn for that. Even if you wouldn’t use TLS, using a vpn wouldn’t make it much more secure.
    • just address that IPs can be static or dynamic. There are many different cases and you exclude them.
    • just because the ip is hidden, you may still reveal your location by other means.
    • i am still in charge of my privacy, vpn only hide ip. All other personal identification methods are still valid.
    • if you need to be anonymuous vpns aren’t the best tool for it which is the controversal part about vpns. If you just want to torrent, you have to use vpns in many locations. Vpns are useless if you log in to services.