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EXPOSING The Billion Dollar SECRET VPN Companies Are Hiding (www.youtube.com)
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If you're using a VPN to stay safe, this will anger you.
You were told a VPN would shield you. Protect your data. Keep you anonymous. But what if the tool you downloaded for privacy was literally designed to watch you?

This video uncovers the full story behind the most dangerous VPN ever madeโ€”used by Facebook to spy on teenagersโ€”and how todayโ€™s most trusted VPNs are following the same exact blueprint.

If youโ€™ve ever felt unsure about who to trust online, this video will give you the receipts, the checklist, and the countermeasures you actually need.

Inside this video, youโ€™ll learn:
โ€ข How Facebook turned a โ€œprivacy appโ€ into a surveillance weapon
โ€ข The Israeli cyber intel unit behind Onavo and why it matters
โ€ข What Project Ghostbusters did to break HTTPS encryption
โ€ข Why 20+ top VPNs are secretly owned by spyware vendors
โ€ข The real story behind ExpressVPN, Kape Technologies, and fake โ€œindependentโ€ review sites
โ€ข The 7-point checklist every VPN must pass to be trusted
โ€ข Better tools to protect yourself: DoH, hardened Firefox, Tor, browser isolation, and more

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[โ€“] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

VPN originally meant 'virtual PRIVATE network'. And it is still used that way, where security matters. Virtual private network meaning it connects someone's private resources into a virtual network not accessible to anyone else.

The 'VPN services' you are talking here about are quite different. They use the same technology, just to tunnel traffic through a third party server. Third party - that is opposite to 'private'.

I do use VPN a lot, but to securely connect my devices over untrusted network (internet). But in this case I control both ends of the VPN tunnel. Or my employer controls that for my work traffic. That is the legitimate use of VPN.

The other 'VPNs' are just 'foreign IP as a service'. Still useful, but I have they being called VPNs and advertised as a privacy solution.

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