Mullvad being raided by Swedish and German intelligence services and them finding absolutely nothing was the best advertising they could've asked for.

My dad in New Zealand asked me if he needed one… that’s when I realised their advertising had gone too far. He’s the last person who needs a VPN 😂

For Australian users: All ISPs are required by law to track every website you visit, maintain the data for 2 years, and hand that information over to any government agency that requests it without informing users about the request. VPNs are not obliged to do this. Even if they were pressured by the government to hand over data which they say they don’t have, they would not be legally obliged to remain silent about it by Australian law. Additionally, if an Australian is accessing US servers the additional latency from using a VPN isn’t noticiable compared to the trans Atlantic lag.

This is not why you shouldn't use a VPN but it's why you need to research the VPN that you do use, understand what a VPN actually does and when and how it is useful, what it can and can't do, and use something that is recommended by Infosec and privacy experts. I use Proton because (while it may not be perfect) their companies privacy/security model and ethics are of a lot better than most others out there.

Tom Scott did very good video on this topic. The funny thing was that the video was supposed to be a sponsored video by a VPN provider but since it was way too honest, the advertisers kept asking for changes and he ended up refusing to work with them. He then published the entire video without cuts (of course censoring it when he mentions the name of the VPN).

Lets be honest, VPNs are being sold to us in advertisements as security/privacy applications because the real reason most people I suspect use them, to get around geo restrictions, is probably not seen as a good corporate look for these companies.

There is no such thing as complete privacy nor is there complete security when connecting to the public network. I use a VPN much of the time with the understanding that I'm trusting my provider to do what they say. I recognize trusts are broken sometimes. Still, for the most part, I'll rate my privacy as being much better with the VPN than without, even if it isn't 100%. I equate it to why we lock our doors at night. Clearly a skilled & determined thief/criminal could make it into someone's house if they are determined enough. At the very least though, it's about keeping honest people honest. Not much we can do about everyone else other than remaining aware, observant & diligent.

Like many others, I was talked into using VPN and still do, but the ridiculously obnoxious scare tactics in VPN marketing is souring me on the whole thing. It's reminiscent of antivirus offerings in the infancy of the consumer-level Internet (1990s), where you'd hear nothing from the AV all year until a week before your renewal, when it would suddenly, but consistently (and loudly), claim to have stopped a serious threat.

Mullvad was recently raided and from memory, the cops basically walked away empty handed because Mullvad really did store nothing

I don't know what other magic people are expecting VPNs to be able to do, but for me all I want is for them to obscure ISPs I visit, protect me from legal bs when using torrents, and occasionally bypass geo blocks. For that it is very helpful. If you're the average grandma that just gets online to check her emails or something, I'd agree they are useless.

A major issue with not using a VPN is that your regular IP address narrows you down so close to where you live, and it changes infrequently. Every website you visit knows there are only a handful of people in the world living in that area. With a VPN, you can have a different IP address in a different location as often as you want, and tons of other people will reuse the IP address you were using, meaning each IP address is useless in any attempt to identify who the user might be. The VPN company may or may not be trying to use your data against you, but your ISP definitely is using your data against you!

I really appreciate the nuance expressed here. Legitimate reasons to use a VPN are still respected, but going blindly in on a service I know next to nothing about VPNs other than ~~SECURITY~~ and ~~GETTING AROUND NATIONAL BANS~~, so if I got one for that reason, I'd also want to know the downsides, too. Everything has that dark-silver lining to it and you can actually sell more product this way. I think you made shopping for a VPN more effective and that's why I appreciate this video! Great work!

The reason Nord VPN is everywhere is not because they're necessarily the best at being a VPN, but the ones that are the best at marketing and that pays the most influencers to flog their wares. I don't worry about privacy, but I've needed a VPN to watch Norwegian tv now that I live in the UK. NordVPN actually worked great for this. I had another VPN before, the name of which I can't recall now, that didn't give me enough bandwidth to watch live tv, and I think at some point it also got IP blocked by the streaming service I wanted to use. I don't have a VPN now, but I might get one again.

As much as I love KZfaqrs being able to get some support from companies, I don't think I've ever seen/heard _one_ ad that didn't at least massively overstate the usefulness of whatever was being advertised (up to being ads for outright scams like that Scottish Lord/Lady title thing...) Frankly, by now, I see such ads as a _warning_ to _at best_ look into other products of the same type, but to stay away from that company...

The argument around roughly 4:00 Your IP is your identifier. The large majority of individuals have what's known as a "static" ip meaning one provided for them by their ISP that does not change ever unless certain conditions are met or it is requested that the isp change it. In a lot of cases you HAVE to ask your ISP to change it This is why VPNs exist. They do not hold you to a static IP, they also change the location to any you may request on the globe giving you not one, but two extra layers of anonymity. It's far removed from the comparison of no VPN at all and it's just simple logic. Normal user; ISP - Has all their info > Static IP logging ALL traffic to one location roughly in the general area of the user> That IP carries your identity but the ISP is your identity. VPN - Has all their info (allegedly encrypted) > Dynamic IP > IP Location NOWHERE near user > VPN is technically your identity yes, but far removed and much harder to retrieve. For someone who claims to understand the dynamics of such things, you are ignoring the simplest and most reasonable argument that disassembles everything you've attempted to construct here until you can at the very least come to terms with this. Everything else is sort of ridiculous to argue, every ISP is obligated to relinquish your data with but a simple request, they don't even go near breaking laws, and they cooperate with police whenever they can. To think otherwise is a delusion, evidence is everywhere for this. Naturally any third party that is under a corporate identity is CAPABLE of being influenced by shadow entities, that doesn't make it a guarantee and im sorry but you invest far less in a vpn than you do your isp, both in data and in vulnerability. I would actually argue that a VPN is only useless for those who do not use the internet consistently or who are proficient in computers enough that they do not need to worry about such things. But for basic users who utilize wifi connections, or are otherwise not privy to such things, it is a layer of protection and comes with useful features that will make the user more secure than less and DEFINITELY avoids a lot of headaches that aspiring internet users can utilize for safety and security as well. To make it seem like users accepting sponsorships to save people money on things they arent being made to buy is kinda weird. Especially given that you claim to hold information you don't understand

Sun, do you use wifi with your fiber set-up or only Ethernet connections?

Tom Scott did a good video (with lots of views) explaining why the messaging around VPN companies (and "influencers" like Mark Rober parroting them) are incorrect/misleading

When a VPN is being promoted on all the big KZfaq channels, it screams “CIA”. “FBI”

Hi Sun, what are your thoughts on the Orion browser for MacOS? They make some pretty large promises when it comes to privacy, and the browser runs very well on M1 Macs. Is it too good to be true?

What are your thoughts on a DPN such as Deeper Network’s products? I’m considering the new Deeper Connect Air since I live half of the year outside of Canada and VPN’s don’t solve my issue

You don't need cookies to be identifiable. There are browser fingerprinting techniques that looks at other things to identify you.

Yep. For the average user, these commercial VPNs really don't offer much of anything other than a bit of added latency lol. They're good for accessing geo-restricted stuff and that's about it. I use a VPN to access my home network and I use a certain no-logs service for when I need a random IP. That's what I use them for, and that's way more than the average internet user needs.

I think the worst threat to security is mobile devices connection to a "free wifi" or 4G, because the router is the phone, hopefully a self hosted full route VPN will protect a mobile device, a lot depends on what you have (IDS/IPS NGFW), but I think it does provide at least some level of protection, hopefully from zero day issues.

I recall being able to use school internet with a vpn. for the past couple of yrs, I can't use it in any fast food joint, library, or school. any money making app will also refuse to work if they detect a vpn. the average joe like me is mostly cornered to only use their home based wifi for everything. is it me or this is occurring to make it that much easier to track what we're doing? I am looking up how to do certain things now to gain more privacy. I may be getting on in yrs but I'm willing to put in the effort. any advice or suggestions are appreciated. other than that, I'll keep on researching n trying.

The people in countries that ban websites for political reasons will and always will use a VPN to get past these unfair restrictions. It is an overstatement to say "nor should you". The people of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, China, South Korea, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Kazakhstan, Iran all need to use VPNs to get to the free internet.

I think of this like this: In order to connect to the internet I have to either trust my ISP company or a VPN company (because if you use a VPN and SDNS all your ISP knows is that you use a VPN). Now there is a risk with the VPN I have researched for days and many security sites agree that it can be trusted - is, in fact, a government honeypot that is used by millions for the last decade and has not been caught. On the other hand, I know for a fact my ISP shares all of my data with my government, no court order is needed. So I choose to use VPN because then they have to work with the court of another country in order to get my data which requires too much effort from them. It's not perfect or riskless - there is no such thing as living risk-free - but it's the lowest-hanging fruit theory - unless they have a strong suspicion of something very bad, they will not go through the trouble and risk burning forever this VPN in my country.

Hi Sun, Thanks for clarifying this for me. I have been seriously considering getting a VPN, but from what I could tell, it didn't seem like any of them were really anything special. When I find businesses or services that are highly advertised I begin to doubt if they really are all that or if they are hype. And if it seems that they are all hype, then its for 1 of 2 reasons, being that they are really incredible, or they are all hype. You just answered most of the questions I had.

Network engineer since 97. I used VPN when I wanted to spoof my IP for pretending to be in another country so I can download some foreign apps. There’s so little security benefits that it doesn’t justify for the performance hit at all. The web is safer than you think, and the best security is to learn about the best practices you can do for yourself rather than to rely on one company to somehow do it all for you. Using a password manager for example. VPN doesn’t handle anything when some company gets hacked and your password is now shared with thousands of hackers.

The only time I've ever legitimately needed the services of a VPN was in 2020 when I was torrenting literally thousands upon thousands of gigabytes worth of movies and video games for my home multimedia setup. If I hadn't used a VPN for that, I'm sure I would've been slapped with dozens of copyright violation notices by my ISP.

I've always felt that if a company (like Nord VPN) is spending all that money on marketing constant sponsor spots then its probably not investing very heavily in the product itself, just like Raycons which are actually just cheap rebranded generic earbuds at a significant markup.

I haven't used a VPN in quite some time for casual purpose stuff. For work we use a VPN (Cisco AnyConnect), but that's configured and maintained by our network team, and is technically used in a different way from something like Nord or SurfShark. For home I can connect to my personal VPN when I'm outside the house. Similar store there. I can use it to access things I don't want to be visible to the outside world. I also use enterprise-grade hardware for my networking, so there's that.

3:28 "There's no way for a website to know it's you if you clear your cookies" lmao

I agree! I have hated these ads when they first started rolling out and even more now. They're very misleading. Especially for a lot of the reasons you mentioned. When it comes to VPNs, I roll my own. For a while, I just used a Wireguard VPN on a virtual firewall I have setup in my data center (I run a hosting company). Lately, I've started setting up a Headscale VPN (Tailscale, but the server-side component is third-party and reversed engineered Tailscale control server). So I really only use VPNs now for their intended purpose: to connect my device to a network it needs to access. I really only use the full tunneling capabilities when I'm on a network I do not trust - such as an AirBnB, hotel wifi, coffeeshop wifi, etc. And that's all you need it for.

Also Mark is an engineer, not an IT guy per se. I think we shouldn't expect him to know the intricate details of how a VPN actually works. I believe he was just given a sponsorship script to read.

I'm in Canada and I use a VPN on my Android phone to get by the geofencing imposed on some apps. However since most VPN's slow my connection down and I am using it to do the job then once the apps is "tricked" into thinking I am in the USA, I disconnect the VPN and use the local connection.

Hi Sun, You mentioned in passing that you have 500Mps symmetric FTH in Montreal. What is your ISP? Do you recommend it? Are there any ISPs that provide a privacy guarantee? Thank you.

One of the worst things about NordVPN is that when you're using it on your PC, it opens up your browser to login. Thus if you have your browser set to remember open pages then NordVPN's client launching the browser will send traffic through a public network before you even get a chance to sign in. And speaking of China and other places that might be blocking VPNs, the fact that you have to use a browser to go to their web page to login is insane since it allows for access to be blocked by blocking the login page. A while ago there was another vpn company called ProXPN. It would login into the vpn via its vpn client but then the vpn client would reach out to the company domain to download a list of server IPs over an http connection. It was so badly designed. And the worst part is that it would clear out the existing list before any new connection so if the domain was blocked on your current network then it would just not work. It's weird how bad the vpn companies think the whole thing through.

Recently I've been thinking of using the split tunneling feature in my VPN (ProtonVPN) and changing my usage of the service. I basically login to all my personal accounts on my computer through the VPN, but then I have those same accounts on my phone without a VPN, so there's not really much point of me doing that anymore. I might put Mullvad Browser through my VPN for general web browsing and my Firefox not through it for my personal accounts. Thanks for the additional insight in this video, Sun. I'd love to hear your thoughts on Mullvad Browser by the way.

Hi Sun, thanks for the vidéo again. Thanks for your work. Could you tell le what do you think of the new firefox Focus for mobile? Did you try it yet ? What about the security within it ? Thank you for your reply and maybe a video update about it. Thanks.

I was wondering if a vpn on a virtual machine would protect the host machine from any viruses or outside attacks. currently have mine on usb wireless, and locked it out from the network card. just wondering about what other options are out there.

Sadly, in some countries, where there is a heavy government censorship or external sanctions that block some of crucial services, it is not an option to not use VPN almost all the time. And sadly it is not limited to China, that was used as an example in this video. Many countries have this issue, to lesser or bigger extent. So for millions of people using VPN is not a priviledge that will improve their privacy or something, it is a crucial part of using web. The problem with VPN ads is that they are mostly targeted at customers from the countries that are doing fine without VPN.

You mentioned using a VPN in China. Basically as a foreigner who wants to maintain social media contact (gmail, FaceBook, KZfaq, etc) with anyone outside China it is more or less essential. Ten+ years ago I discovered the hard way that the GFWC was smart enough to detect a VPN connection and shut it down unless _you_ were smart in how you used it. I am pretty sure that given the advances in supercomputer power in China this even more the case now. Interestingly, nowadays super-cheap VPNs are available in China, but you can bet your boots they are back-doored, so it depends on your use case whether you want to risk using them.

I’m quite a noob where online security and privacy is concerned. Like I have no knowledge about this field. But I just want to use a VPN so I can access content (netflix) available in different countries and open websites from other countries or book cheaper airline tickets but doing all this while being protected from being doxed or having my data leaked. What VPN would you guys recommended? I have heard PIA VPN is good. Also, is getting into using a VPN something that requires a steep learning curve? Appreciate any help. Thank you!

I like the way you delivered the information, even though I’m not resourceful or patient enough to an engage in other ways to use the internet privately. I will keep this in mind either way

I think renting out a VPS from a trusted, privacy-centric company outside the 14 eyes and hosting your own VPN from it is the best way to be more certain of no web traffic logs being kept, since you're the one setting it up and operating it. Wolfgang's Channel has a good tutorial showing how to set this up

One use case is to allow you to share your mobile hotspot connection unthrottled with other devices. When using VPN your usage won’t count towards your limited “hotspot data”

Very good points. There *are* use cases. Some of the ISPs are really terrible. Finding ways around these issues certainly is worth it.

Thank you Sun! What do you think about ProtonVPN in Switzerland?

My ISP likes to slap me on the wrist for DMCA stuff when I don't use a VPN for certain activities. They've temporarily shut my internet off multiple times. With a VPN, I haven't had that problem.

In Canada, now that the feds have passed a new internet censorship bill, I'm never going to use the internet for anything without a VPN (I use PIA, not Nord). If nothing else, it circumvents the ever increasing instances of geolocking. I'm just not going to put up with "this content is not available in your country" or "this content requires a subscription in your country" (even though it's free everywhere else) any more.

You answered EVERY question I had about VPNs… but couldn’t seem to get answers-thank you!!!! 💕💕💕💕💕💕

What do you think about Proton VPN? Thank you for clearly explaining many of the issues.

Nice video Sun, appreciate the depth and nuance, and challenging the status quo where VPNs are so often touted as a magic cure-all with no downsides (often by ‘tech’ KZfaqrs). One thing not addressed in the video is your privacy from the perspective of the individual websites that you visit (which can read your HTTPS traffic since they are the intended recipient). Without a VPN, you will usually be connecting from the same IP address (your home network), and so even when you are not logged in the website will be able to correlate all your traffic into a detailed profile about you connected to your IP address (e.g. every page you visited / search you made on the specific site). Wondering if you had any thoughts on this since the video focused on ISPs and VPNs as bad actors, but didn’t address the websites themselves. Thanks once again for the great content, need more KZfaqrs getting into the finer details like this!

I am pretty security conscious and prefer to have my data anonymized as much as possible. My Setup: Wireguard tunnel between home Mikrotik and AWS server hosted "somewhere else" Adguard Home DNS-level add blocking for my whole home network hosted on the same instance above (DNS over HTTPS TLS with custom cert) Crowdsec blacklist server updating firewall rules on my router dynamically with a large community-owned blacklist (hosted locally) Do you think the above is adequate? Or do you have any suggestions? I would prefer not to used paid-for VPN services as their "no logging" policies are suspect

that's really interested, i didnt realise the whole 'if you're logged in then the vpn knows your location at all times' point

Some good points but I wonder if you get a man in the middle attack would the vpn help to protect you in a better way? Also can dns change alone be enough to prevent isp snooping on you to sell your info or target you? Thanks for that video.

For people who plan to use Tor, there are a few Linux distrobutions that use Tor for all of their internet capabilities. The easiest to use is probably Tails but it's not a one size fits all scenario. Which secure Linux distrobution is the right choice largely depends on what devices you need it to work with, and your overall use case. For example, Tails is currently incompatible with Apple Silicon (ARM) based macs as well as the last few generations of Intel (x86) based macs.

Thank you for the video Sun! Can you share your opinion about services like Tailscale or Zerotier where we can tunnel things like our mobile phones through our home internet connections as an exit node similar to creating our own VPN ? This seems a lot more viable nowadays where internet speeds for home is much faster and also fiber makes it symmetrical.

Thank you for your great clarification on the matter. Great points, great clarification.

I'm wondering if the VPN speed is faster if I connect to my own country?

Snowden revelations also revealed that TOR users are basically put on a 'suspicious' list by the NSA too. That in itself killed my interest in using it.

This is super helpful, thank you! I'm so glad to hear that using a VPN isn't necessary in most cases because as you said, it really does slow down my internet speed.

I tried using a VPN. The sites where I might have needed it most (such as financial sites) recognized that I was trying to log in from a VPN. The only way to get logged in without a lot of hassle was to turn the VPN off. 🤔

Appreciate the video man, thanks for the maturity lesson and how to actually use these tools. I hear that question all the time, do I need a VPN? I'm in IT, and always have to explain the things you're discussing here too people seeing those ads. We're on the same page as far as VPN usage and TOR usage go. I'm a big advocate for education over any security or antivirus solutions because you don't really need them if you do it right and just be careful, spend a few extra bucks on a decent firewall that won't Bing you over yearly licensing for modular features, etc.

I use a vpn on my personal phone while connected to my company's wifi (I work in remote areas with no cell coverage). They have a guest access portal, but have limited what websites you can access and could possibly also see which sites were visited. The vpn gives me access to all sites and limits the information available to my company about my usage.

I agree in large part with the main point of this video, Most people don't need to use a VPN that often. I only find it useful while traveling, mainly at hotels and airport when having to use my notebook computer. I worry more about the people I have to share the Wifi with at those 2 locations, At home I control who has access to MY network, and by the time I'm on the internet AES does the rest.

I'm so glad I saw this! Now I know why VPNs are useless for watching things available abroad! I tried to get Disney Now in the UK; thankfully, I've had free money back after 30 days when I wasn't able to access US content but I've been unable to get access to what I've wanted to watch. Funnily enough, I went back to my onion browser to stream from random sites 😂 Can't beat that lol

Dude you are the info goat on this Sun, when you mentioned Mullvad I was like YES!!!!! Nailed it.

Ok. But what if I use _two_ VPN's at once? That's twice as safe, right? I wrote that as a joke, but one of the reasons I stopped using a VPN regularly was it was causing issues when I tried to log into my company's VPN. I didn't pursue why, but I'm guessing it had to do with some of the endpoints I was coming out of being flagged.

We use VPNs provided by our clients’ appliances or firewalls to work on their networks. There’s usually no reason to use VPNs while browsing websites as most websites use HTTPS these days. If I’m at a coffee shop and am concerned about security, I’ll just connect to our own company VPN and use that.

what about decentralized vpn's or dpn's are they as safe as projected ?

The random door opening at @4:05 had me thinking someone was coming into my house downstairs 😅

I started using it a month ago. But not for security purposes (I know VPN isn't much about internet security). My country has just implemented major censorships. Blocked many many sites that they consider "harmful" (example, yes they think reddit is "unhealthy"). Nope, this isn't one of the easily bypassed by DNS trick. I'm never into censorship, so I started using VPN just for that. I don't even use it for "overseas Netflix" either.

NordVPN is basically using Non Informed KZfaqrs for False Advertising and get away with it. Many asked me if NordVPN is worth it i personally recommended Mullvad for their Activism and NO AFFLIATES for anybody shows how good they are.

I do use a vpn in certain places when I am not 100% that the internet is secure. I live in a HOA that provides internet to each home, but how do I know that is secure? When dealing with employee payroll and online banking, I will take the extra security every time. Yes, I do suffer speed connection (300 to 35 mbps) but I am fine with that. Thoughts on Express VPN?

11:24 5/27/23 I am paying for both Mozilla and Nord VPN, and I discovered that one problem with both is that, unless you live in one of their choices of apparent locations, the only way to reveal your actual location WHEN YOU WANT TO is to turn off the VPN. Some bill paying sites require an IP address of where I actually live in order to log in, and retail sites show merchandise (and actual store locations) based on my IP address. So when the nearest apparent city I can choose on the VPN is hundreds of miles away, this is a problem. It would be nice to have the OPTION when using a VPN to show my actual location (to the nearest ISP port) but still encrypt my traffic.

The main reason for me to use a VPN is to circumvent geo restrictions. The problem with the VPN I'm using is that it doesn't work with all websites and it slows down the speed of my connection. So, yes, I often don't use it.

On the possibility of a VPN being a honeypot, in early 2018, Private Internet Access (PIA) abruptly shut down and wiped their servers in South Korea because they heard from a close contact that law enforcement were going to mirror the server the next day without due process.

so what if i just wanna access different movies in different disney+ in each country should I get VPN

As someone fairly in the dark,, what about Tails with vpn? Imust say that firefox must do something cos theyve got amazon enquiring if its me 1500 kilometres away.

You are the first guy who I've seen actually acknowledge VPN's are a honey pot and probably quite afew have back doors for 3 letter agencies. I don't see why more people don't just spin up a VPN every time they need one using a VPS host.... As soon as your done for the day you just delete the VPS. I mean I know that the same 3 letter agencies could be running a journaling file system on the VPS hosts to keep every single file system change, but it can't be any worse than using a VPN.

Thank you for highlighting mulvad! I havent tried it yet. Overall, I appreciate you helping the layman cut through the sales narrative.

I have a questions: is using VPN really get you better price when buying from online shopping site like amazon?

What's the point of dns over https if you then connect to that ip then fundamentally they still have a list of domains? I think that the way around that is a proxy.

Shout out to NoScript and Giorgio Maone. This is a really nice piece of software that lets you disassemble a site's scripts one at a time and prevent ads, pixel trackers, and anything else from showing up if you don't want it to.

I remember back in Windows 3.1 you could setup a VPN with anyone else with a phone line and modem. Why it was removed in Windows 95 and industry made VPN's a service instead of allowing people to connect with each other privately over the internet is easily answered: You control a true VPN, but with a middle man they do, and with that it is only a VN, but the P (Private) was removed from the equation and is a ruse for the most part.

Are vpns good for public Wi-Fi protection like airports and hotels? If a hacker monitoring the same network was good enough, would a vpn at least slow him down?

Does mullvad work in Egypt so far only express works?

The biggest reason to route traffic through VPN is to prevent 3rd parties from gaining info from your ISP, but best practice would be creating your own VPN server in the data center of your choice. The data center will essentially become your new ISP and still have all the same privacy issues, but hopefully the data center country and policies are better than your residential provider.

Doesn’t matter how secure the pipe, dns, https, etc., is if your client side applications/communication methods are back-dooring info so nsa and others can readily read anything they choose! Knowing this, it’s still a good idea to use those things as it helps to prevent casual data exposure by lesser sophisticated actors.

I was expecting a more tech savvy in depth approach to the discussion. But perhaps that was just a matter of preference on my part as I was begging for more. Overall it was insightful and I did get a lot of ideas from this. Well done.

What would you recommend using in a public place like a coffee shop?

I'm using an Amazon EC2 instance with an OpenVPN road warrior server running on it, and that's it. Costs a few bucks a month and looks like a regular AWS IP to ISPs

Thank you for another great video, I look forward to seeing more of how you have set up your devices to strike a balance between performance usability and privacy and security

I have been using Firefox for about a year and I found it launching much slower than the chromium based browsers. Is it just me for some reason or is it a common thing?

In Austria and Germany I haven't been able to change the DNS on the modem/router. Certain devices have been setup with a DNS other than my ISP, in the hope that works.

what's the difference between all your traffic being routed through 1 VPN provider versus your ISP? It's the same thing but at least with the VPN there is some anonymity to what you're actually doing versus your ISP seeing anything they want. Or I am missing something?

8:35. Thats where the answer is. Once again, thank you SponsorBlock

Access to marketing agency's KZfaq channels in different countries from a my country is difficult due to the two-step identification (it is not always possible to reach the local colleague who receives the code). Please suggest a solution to ease this process.

For most of the DNS, it's not encrypted, so you can read requests to any server. Plus lots of IPs can be correlated to a website/service