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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] sobanto@feddit.de 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

VPNs like NordVPN for almost everyone.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] andyburke@fedia.io 7 points 5 months ago

Your ISP selling your browsing data is the hacker.

[–] sobanto@feddit.de 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Who do you trust more? Your isp, or a random vpn Company that not only own one vpn-service, but surprisingly many. (Nord security owns NordVPN and Surfshark, Kape owns ExpressVPN and Cyberghost). And wouldn't it be need if you, as NSA, would have a direct connection to the data people concerned with there privacy? It's not like their "no log" policy really exists if the have to write logs by law.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

A VPN sure. I'm not sure about Nord.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But if you don't use a VPN with military grade encryption hackers can steal your money from the banking website that only uses military grade encryption!

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

So your saying I should keep an eye on the War Thunder forums?

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Considering Nord (and most VPNs, especially the ones that advertise themselves) are all owned by one company, who has a huge conflict of interest (they're an ad company) with VPNs to begin with.