What is a Virtual Private Network? And why isn't using a VPN enough to protect your online privacy?

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Guide to Choosing a VPN at https://thatoneprivacysite.net/

What is a Virtual Private Network (VPN)?
VPN is a private network that creates 'virtual' connections over a public network, which could easily be and in most cases was the Internet.

How does a VPN work?
What a VPN actually does is it encapsulates data packets that would normally travel over an insecure network, such as the Internet, into an entirely new packet and places its own VPN header on top of it, masking the original source of information. This process is called tunneling and is how VPNs mask your IP address.
This is why you can trick websites into having a different IP address and bypass geolocation censorship. But this is not what guarantees the confidentiality of your data. You need encryption for that.
VPNs achieve this by encrypting the traffic between a client and the VPN server. This means that a company VPN client can encrypt data coming from its employee's laptop working in the field and connected to a local Wi-Fi.
Encryption does not necessarily mean privacy.
The reason why VPNs protect corporate privacy but fail to protect consumer privacy is the fundamental design of VPN technology. The VPN server will always know some personally identifiable information about you. Whether it is your real IP address, information you provided when creating your account and information from your payment method. The process of collecting this information is called logging, and there's not much you can do to verify what a VPN company is actually doing with user logs.

So how do you choose a VPN provider? Well, you need to do two things: You need to evaluate your threat model. We'll discuss that on my channel in the future. And you need to do a lot of research and educate yourself on the subject. Never trust a single source. Don't even look at torrentfreak or Pcmag reviews. Check out what the community is saying about VPN providers. A good source of reviews of many features from many VPN providers is thatoneprivacysite.net. Reddit is an excellent source of customer reviews, and you can view them without having a Reddit account.

How can websites track you even if you use a VPN?
Let's say you search for and purchase your monthly subscription from a reputable VPN provider. And then you do something like that.
You successfully configure your VPN connection and then open your favorite web browser, which should NEVER be Chrome, but statistically probably will be. You log into your Gmail, which uses Chrome as if you were logging into the browser itself to sync, and then you browse the web for all kinds of purposes: education, work, entertainment, shopping, travel…
You just handed over ALL your private data to the most privacy-abusive company in the world. China does not have Google's surveillance capabilities. And Google sells your privacy to every website and retailer you visit.
If you don't block trackers properly, you'll just be wasting your money. You need to reassess your threat model. You need to ask yourself: Who are you trying to protect your private information from? Your internet service provider, providers of software and applications that connect to the internet, website operators, advertisers, governments and hackers.

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