trippingonthewire@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoUsually connect to Walmart's WiFi but they changed their policy I guess, won't be doing that now...lemmy.mlimagemessage-square228fedilinkarrow-up1696arrow-down121
arrow-up1675arrow-down1imageUsually connect to Walmart's WiFi but they changed their policy I guess, won't be doing that now...lemmy.mltrippingonthewire@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square228fedilink
minus-squarederpgonlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI always wonder why those VPN absolutists aren’t happy with your regular HTTPS. Sure, maybe HTTP is safer with the VPN, but it just hides your real IP from the target website.
minus-squarenoodlejetski@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoit also hides the websites you visit from your ISP, who often likes to profile you based on your browsing habits.
minus-squarefuzzzerdlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIt shifts from the isp to the VPN provider, who isn’t doing that profiling yet.
minus-squarenoodlejetski@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoin that case, it hides the websites you visit from: the ISP providing the network, and the business who offers the public WiFi, both of them probably being very eager to profile your browsing habits (as seen on the image in the post).
I always wonder why those VPN absolutists aren’t happy with your regular HTTPS. Sure, maybe HTTP is safer with the VPN, but it just hides your real IP from the target website.
it also hides the websites you visit from your ISP, who often likes to profile you based on your browsing habits.
It shifts from the isp to the VPN provider, who isn’t doing that profiling yet.
yes.
Yeah but it’s on a public wifi
in that case, it hides the websites you visit from:
both of them probably being very eager to profile your browsing habits (as seen on the image in the post).