Secure your VPN
The why and wherefore of VPNs
It’s not VPNs that are bad, rather people’s unrealistic expectations of privacy. And, in a pay-per-click age, honesty.
Search online for “why I need a VPN” on any and you’ll find flashy websites framing all sorts of shoddy prose on the perils of “unprotected” browsing. Such diatribe should be taken with a grain of salt. Yes, there are companies that sell your data. Yes there are brutal regimes that punish anyone caught browsing websites that go against their ideologies. Yes, Google is mostly blocked in China. And yes, a VPN might help you with this. But it’s perhaps not as essential as people think.