A VPN isn’t going to protect you from malware or trackers. I’m not sure how they can get away with this marketing.
If you want to boost your security focus on your web browser
ispot.tvis on one of my DNS blacklists, it seems to be an advertising service?Many VPNs have built in traffic filtering that does block common malware, phishing, and tracking domains/IPs.
Their advertising claims still do get a bit ridiculous though.
Plot twist, practically ALL advertisements are misleading
All Nord VPN ads are.
All
Nord VPNads are.FTFY
Good luck trying to explain to normies what a vpn is in 30 seconds.
A VPN does this, but for your internet connection:
Internet providers, governments and criminals can see what you are doing online, With VPN they can’t anymore.
Thats basically it.
…they can’t really? Only the domain name is visible to the ISP, and criminals are either stopped by https or won’t care about a VPN.
Everything’s visible for HTTP, and in fact some ISPs inject their own ads into HTTP content. HTTPS is harder for malicious actors, but your ISP can tell when you’re visiting pornhub.com, and will happily provide that to the government. With encrypted SNI it’s somewhat harder, but if you’re visiting an IP address of 1.2.3.4, and that IP address is solely used by pornhub.com, it’s not hard to guess what you’re up to.
Yes, I’m aware. IP addresses are come colocated to hell and back, and every site uses https. I’m sure your ISP is getting some real interesting data watching you visit the same 4 sites.
Yeah I don’t buy it.
Instead of tapping individual connections, you now only have to tap the traffic to/from the VPNs exit nodes. Then you correlate incoming packets with outgoing packets (e.g. based on size, timing, etc) and you know the origin of the traffic.
Bonus is that it acts as a filter, people using a VPN want to hide their traffic so you specifically want to watch those people.
I thought the ‘security’ angle was just a smokescreen anyway. Isn’t it actually for accessing region-locked media?
It’s for torrents.
VPNs are great for avoiding the nastygrams that your ISP forwards to you from media companies. They get sent to some company that doesn’t care about US laws instead, and probably laughed at before being deleted
