• neosheo@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Marketing mostly. The vpn makes an encrypted tunnel that you’re traffic goes thru. If using https and vpn there are 2 layers of encryption. It’s not false advertising bc an extra layer doesn’t hurt. Now if your sending password over http it would help but you shouldnt be using a site that sends passwords over plaintext. I would say vpn is mostly to either hide your ip from websites or to hide internet activity from your isp

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      1 year ago

      So more for privacy than security, so it would make sense to use a VPN depending on your threat model I suppose, or how much you care.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah it’s more for privacy. Still you can just have it always on and it really wont cause many issues except for sites that block vpns.