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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Bitwarden Privacy Software Stack Survey (forms.bitwarden.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (23 children)

I am surprised by the lack of question about VPN/SPN

[+] [email protected] -6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (22 children)

VPNs do little for your privacy, unless there's specific reason to trust them over your isp

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I have a friend who works for a German ISP.

He personally has set up a system which automatically provides all the data requested by the police, without checking whether the request is formal and valid.

I rather trust a VPN provider from a jurisdiction where logging any user data is not required by law. Or an SPN, where even if logging has to be enabled by law, it is technologically impossibe to extract a user's activity from the data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So you have a specific reason to trust certian VPNs over your ISP. My point was just that VPNs aren't inherently better than ISPs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I see what you mean, but I think that point is pretty inherent.

Most if not all countries have similar laws related to getting user data from ISPs by making them log it for some time. And people can only use the ISPs from their country.

On the other hand no country can force their law on a VPN provider from a different jurisdiction, yet people worldwide can use those VPN providers.

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