So I'm pretty recent to the high seas but I've seen a few posts now about "stop relying on your VPN" and "people that think VPNs will protect them are naive" and so on.

So since I believe knowledge is our greatest weapon/tool/super-power, can we get some answers regarding what exactly the doomsayers are getting at? ELI5 why VPNs wouldn't protect your anonymity.

Is it about logging? The country your end-point is in? Something more technical?

Ultimately I'd like to be fully armed in order to keep making the best choices for my fledgling ship as it navigates the vast, stormy seas.

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[+] [email protected] 79 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (5 children)

And encrypting your traffic so your ISP can't definitively see what you're doing. They can guess, but they can't definitively tell. That encrypted traffic is a shield for your ISP. When an IP holder demands something, the ISP can say it is encrypted and they can't read it. It forces the bulk of the work back onto the IP holder. If your VPN is doing what it claims to do, then the work of that IP holder gets extremely difficult to downright impossible.

[–] Pulp 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The copyright troll would be sending the emails to the VPN provider's host. They won't even know who your ISP is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Exactly this - the troll will never know your ISP, so you literally cannot get a notice.

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