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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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I hate how the privacy services shove in your face the "unprotected" word (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 day ago by JohnDarlen@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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You disable the VPN, they show "unprotected", come on, I'm not really unprotected, why such a dramatic word, I just disabled the thing a little, I'm "disconnected" but it doesn't mean I'm actually unprotected, the same way it doesn't mean I'm actually protected if I'm using a VPN.

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[–] It_is_gaslighting@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. For example if your browser is fingerprinting you towards the webpage, a VPN will be useless when it comes to privacy.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Yes necessarily. What a VPN does to protect your traffic flows from your ISP or network operator is not affected by browser fingerprinting. On the contrary, this is something VPNs explicitly help with. Since web traffic is almost always encrypted, the types of limited traffic analysis they can normally do, they wouldn’t be able to do if all your traffic is going through a VPN. (Snooping on your DNS queries, looking at your TLS SNI, analyzing packet sizes and such)

Additionally, not all traffic you’re trying to protect with a VPN even uses a web browser.