On Tue, 28 Nov 2023, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 04:03:04PM -0000, Curt wrote: >> NordVPN advertises very heavily in France on television and claims to >> provide safety against bad actors (personified as villainous figures >> observing your every move) when using it. It's their only selling point. > > And obviously these commercial VPNs are all incredibly trustworthy > companies unlike your own ISP or government, despite the obnoxious > tone and deceptive nature of their advertising. > > And also it's totally impossible for a government to set up a > commercial VPN company to catch the sort of people who think they > have something to hide. > > Right? … Right?? > > We only have to look to the exemplary behaviour of the Crown Prince > of Korea and his PIA, the company that saved Freenode from a life of > quiet success and respectability.
a lock will only stop and honest man i think a vpn is worth using if only to help filter site tracking but a lot of sites will block access if they detect your using a vpn those sites are dead set on tracking you and probably worth avoiding
