vpnbook.com - A free VPN service
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Has anyone tried vpnbook.com? It is a free VPN service based on OpenVPN. Their servers are located in different countries. Their privacy policy says:
"Our privacy policy is simple: We respect your privacy. We do not collect any personal information or store any user's internet data. The only thing we log is the IP address and time the connection was made. We log connection information in order to reduce abusive activities and keep this free VPN service online for all legitimate users. Connection logs are automatically deleted every week."
https://www.vpnbook.com/freevpn
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Hello,
Privacy by policy is no privacy at all.
First, no one is going to jail because of your privacy, even less when you are using a free service and not paying them. So, even if the people behind the project are honest, they still have to comply with the law. They log your IP and connection duration so they have enough information for the government or anyone else to burn you.
Second, most of these people are not honest, they actually make profiles based on watching your browsing and sell those to companies and governments.
If you want to have priacy, use Tor, I2P, or other decentralized community based service.
Now, having said that... if you can't use Tor or I2P (for whatever reason) and want to make it so your ISP can't watch your connection, use a VPN yes, it's better than nothing, but seriously don't think that you are safe... you are not. You are ONLY hiding from your ISP. NO ONE ELSE!!
I think we can all agree by now that there's no perfect privacy online.
The whole point is to get as much privacy as possible/manageable. Which is a legal right.
From there, Tor is not perfect either. It's slow, and some (many?) exit nodes are wired.
Plus, for the average user, online behavior gives away some decent data. To really use Tor properly, it's not convenient for daily use. It feels more adapted to special situations.
As for a VPN, at least it can run most of the time without too much headache.
It's indeed not perfect, but it's at least something. Online behavior remains important.
VPNs cannot make online connections completely anonymous, but they can usually increase privacy and security (from Wikipedia). Mainly thanks to encrypted data. Some metadata can be figured out, but the data itself is still encrypted.
So, free vs non free VPN ?
Chances are that if it's free, you're the product. Which can be also true if you pay for it (but less likely, since there's an incentive not to do so).
Is there a way to know if such a company leaks data or not? It seems very unreasonable to rely solely on online users reviews. It's like buying tap water marketed as a super remedy to all pains in the old west. How am I supposed to know that I'm actually logging into a real service? And to know if my data is safe or not?
As for the legality of such tools, the legislation in europe and north america seems to not go in the right direction. Thankfully, freedom and privacy are taking more space in the public debate.
I'm reading about no log VPNs right now, I don't know yet how legal it is, but it seems safer.
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this depends on da vpn u use..
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