Comments on: VPNs: Your personal tunnel to privacy https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/27485/vpn-privacy-2/ Straight-talking security advice from the Malware Experts Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:24:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: franmol https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/27485/vpn-privacy-2/#comment-787566 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:54:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=27485#comment-787566 In reply to Jerry Andersson.

Sure, even Facebook bought a VPN service back in 2013, ‘Onavo’. “Why would Facebook buy a VPN app? Because the VPN functionality gives the app visibility into the network connection for the entire phone. Consequently, information such as URLs and app usage is exposed, and Facebook can examine user activity for their own purposes. The price of free is just too high.” So you may imagine Opera….

]]> By: franmol https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/27485/vpn-privacy-2/#comment-787565 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:47:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=27485#comment-787565 “A VPN grants your location anonymity, allowing you to access content when outside of your country”; not sure about that: your ISP knows your IP and knows you connected to an IP that is about a VPN service, eventually. In fact as you wrote below “However, some television networks have begun blocking access to users if they detect that you are using a VPN.”; so if the TV networks knows you are not a genuine citizen of it space, then even your ISP knows that. Anonymity is different than privacy.

]]> By: Jerry Andersson https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/27485/vpn-privacy-2/#comment-787278 Sun, 25 Jun 2017 12:22:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=27485#comment-787278 So using Opera’s built in VPN is bad?

]]> By: LodeHere https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/27485/vpn-privacy-2/#comment-787079 Mon, 19 Jun 2017 14:14:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=27485#comment-787079 A handy free proxy browser is Epic. Epic doesn’t keep records of one’s searches. In its the top right corner appears a small stack of three short horizontal lines which are for settings. There one can choose one of the countries outside one’s own where Epic’s also has proxy servers. So it looks like you are located in one of those countries.

I use it sometimes, like yesterday when I wanted to see a Canadian video in Chrome, but got the message that it was not available for my region (The Netherlands) so I copied the URL > opened Epic > hit the small stack of 3 short vertical lines in the top right corner > turned on “Proxy” > chose Canada > pasted the URL in Epic’s top search bar > hit enter. Now I could watch the video.

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