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Counter-Strike 2 players warned not to play CS2 as huge exploit could leak your IP (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] hihellobyeoh -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Security, that's a major use of vpns.

Edit: I should of pointed out that I meant limited use for security reasons, like accessing your bank account in public areas, its not much but it can help to protect you from MitM attacks at the very least.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

VPNs doesn't really improve security in a way that usually matters.

Nearly all web traffic is already encrypted.

VPNs absolutely have their uses (like accessing remote networks, bypassing firewalls and censorship, piracy) but they are not needed for just using all the time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

YouTube sponsorship is the major use of VPNs. Hiding your IP does nothing to mitigate user tracking by application/hardware finger printing, tracking of users logged into a service, or tracking of user activity with cookies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I know there are so many other ways they are tracking people. There was one discovered they put a list of I think 500 top sites and they could identify people with I think it was 90% accuracy, just by telling which sites they visited because the links turn purple. I these are the ones discovered, so they where doing this before people found out what else are the doing that nobody knows about yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So what are you gaining using a VPN to access your bank? Your bank website is https so it's already encrypted. VPN's are vastly misrepresented in their commercials.