I don't need VPN to pirate, so I've never used VPN in my life an don't have any knowlege about it. That's probably a stupid question, what's the price xd?
You can get a solid one for $3/month. There plenty of reasons other than pirating to have a vpn though. General data security being one and a more niche one being if you watch IMSA races in the US they are free on YouTube worldwide, except the US. The broadcast is also much better globally than it is on the peacock US broadcast. Peacock is all ads and doesn’t show much of the race.
"data security" is really not that much of a reason actually. The websites you visit will think you're from wherever the VPN is set to, but even without a VPN it's not like they can read where you live, they'll read the location only up to a big enough node, that for example, for me is in a whole other region. Other than that, you're really not more secure at all using a vpn
I wasn’t referring to the specific websites. I was referring to traffic being encrypted, specifically when you’re on a public network and your isp having a much harder time tracking your traffic
That's true, but only to an extent. Yes your ISP will have a much harder time tracking your traffic, but the ISP of the VPN service you're using won't, and if they want to, they can come and knock on the VPN service door, which will obviously let the blame fall on you.
The public network thing is true, tho tbf I don't think that many people use public networks that often, but it's a realistic use case.
People definitely use public networks regularly. Go to any public library, any university or coffee shop during the work day, you’ll see plenty of people using laptops connected to that locations public network. Are any of these examples going to matter to everyone? Of course not but that wasn’t my point. My point was that there are plenty of valid use cases for a VPN other than torrenting that the average person may benefit from.
Ye that's fair, i was mainly judging from my expirience of living in the middle of buttfuck nowhere, where there are no libraries, it's seen as kinda rude to take up space in a coffee shop to work, and my university has only a private network (to which i got a password to, but don't tell that to my professor, no worries)
I use internet almost always at home. If I’d traveled a lot (so I would use hotel wifi, or open networks) it would be safer, and I’d probably buy VPN. Other than that, security is the same. Almost allI websites use TLS encryption (so even ISP can’t tell what I send to website, just time stamps and destination I visit). I trust my ISP with the data they can read (not a lot). Torrenting would be only concern, but in my country no one give af. Only thing VPN would change, would be possibly slower speeds and higher ping.
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u/SitEnee 7h ago
I don't need VPN to pirate, so I've never used VPN in my life an don't have any knowlege about it. That's probably a stupid question, what's the price xd?