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I'll have to do some more digging as far as that aspect is concerned I just find it irritating as hell.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the cookies they set on your computer have nothing to do with your ISP. Remember, I don't get catered ads or spam, vpn on or off.
The best way to be secure is not have a facebook which you constantly update, not be a twitter whore, not be anything of the sorts. Which is a tragedy of this generation which is completely unprepared, because nobody prepared them... and you have 12-13 years old on facebook, growing up with the idea that posting your life online is OK, when in fact, it's not... and you know, that's not their fault. It's the fault of their parents who don't know any better..
These buggards got you coming or going...
Ah, no. A vpn stands for virtual private network. It basically extends a private network over the public network which is the internet.
TOR allows you to access the deep web, which you can't via VPN.
So basically ,a VPN keeps you safe (your IP untraceable, or so they say)but you can't access the deep web.
I don't trust a lot of VPNs. Ehm, I suggest you don't either because most are crap. You don't know, in truth, if a VPN is working or not. To you, it won't seem any different than using chrome incognito, as the end user. You don't see if it is working or not. So I wouldn't trust them.
Honestly, as a common plebe, like myself, the best thing you can use a VPN for is to change your IP to another country. Like, for australians, use VPN when you log into steam and seem american so you pay american dollars at american rates for games. But your entire life, you'll have to be an american by VPN to access steam or the charade is done for.
A small correction here: Steam actually goes off your billing address, not where you're logged in. I pay American prices here in Germany on Steam without a VPN because I still have my American debit card and bank account.
As for the OP, I think it's mostly a very good thing and in most cases is secure.
I'll have to do some more digging as far as that aspect is concerned I just find it irritating as hell.
A small correction here: Steam actually goes off your billing address, not where you're logged in. I pay American prices here in Germany on Steam without a VPN because I still have my American debit card and bank account.
As for the OP, I think it's mostly a very good thing and in most cases is secure.
Hmm...when I was on a business trip in Europe and tried to buy a game on Steam I was shown the higher prices. Turned on the VPN, became an American, and voila: American prices.
Did you actually try to buy anything though? When you get down to actual payment it will charge you based on your card.
Well maybe you're using a better one than I have had experience with. I haven't been in that world of VPNs for 2 years so I may be out of date. But that's how it was for me. And yeah, so you're allowing cookies, ofc that does the trick.
Depends on its context in usage to answer. It can be used for good and dangerous things as it can be used for bad and dangerous things. I think once you get into the realm of anonymity possessed by using a TOR browser along with whatever proxies and other making tools available that the outcome will be dangerous by nature. For example, I think what the group Anonymous does is great but is definitely dangerous in many aspects.
Well, technically you could say the same thing about the privacy of my own home. I could be using that privacy either for watching Family Guy and eating pizza in my underwear, or I could be using it for making meth. Privacy's a bitch like that.
That's very true. But in my eye, if you want to make meth than that's your choice. Similarly, if you want to attack a rogue government through the internet then so be it.
The meth inclusion was to show that negative as well as positive (or simply neutral) choices can be made with privacy. The IRS decided that there was no expectation of privacy with electronic communication (e-mail). Oh, how nice of them to decide that for me, but I disagree with their conclusion. Ever since 9/11 we haven't been able to talk about expectations of privacy without them descending into discussions of illicit activity. Do you know why I like privacy? It's not because I'm trying to overthrow the government or plan on buying black market goods, it's because I'm a private kind of dude. /rant
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