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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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What VPN do you use to hide traffic from your ISP? (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because HTTPS protects only things you do on the site. ISP still knows which sites you connect to. Which YouTube video you are watching to. etc. F.E. in Russia ISP's have to keep logs of users interactions for half of year and give it to government when they need them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

ISP still knows which sites you connect to.

Yes, because they know the IPs your packets go to, but if there are multiple websites behind a single IP they won't know which one (unless you use your ISP DNS server, which you should probably not)

Which YouTube video you are watching to. etc.

No, because the URL is contained within the HTTP packets which are encrypted with SSL (the S in HTTPS), so unless the ISP does MiM, they cannot know which URL you are visiting.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hmm... You have way better knowledge than I am. It seems so. Should think about this things some time later 😉