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How often do y'all use a VPN? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by monovergent@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Bit of an uphill fight with captchas everywhere. Do people here conduct all online activity over VPN whenever possible? Only for the sensitive stuff? Or perhaps the inverse because the bank already knows you? Maybe when travelling or getting around region blocking? Something else?

The one provided by my work aside, I realized that I don't have any consistent rules around using VPN. Except sometimes, you know, when downloading ISO's for my favorite distos.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I never have. Don't know how to do it (I know it's not hard). The only use I occasionally have is blocked media, but I just don't watch whatever it is. It's not that important to me.

What's important to me is blocking ads, which I do as much as possible. The way I see it, the main point of them tracking me is to serve me ads, so I break the chain at the ads.

If I want privacy, I use Tor. Everything else seems like spitting into the wind.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

I also think, ad/trackerblocker, Portmaster and common sense in what you public on the web is mostly enough (How much claims of the lack of privacy I saw in Facebook through the years...)