I’m guessing that third-party provider is Palantir or the NSA.
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2025
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Can anyone ELI5? From what I'm understanding all this does is give them an idea how many people are using VPNs? If that's all why is using AI necessary?
Since they give no indication of how they're doing it or what information they're gathering, no one can really explain. It may be some kind of traffic analysis where an AI provides heuristic recognition of probable VPN traffic.
It's trivial to find most VPN traffic by looking at some packets. No idea why they need AI
Thank you this answers my question!
TLDR basically the size and frequency of data being sent to and from a website acts like a digital fingerprint even if ISPs can't see what's in those data packets. Looks like there's an easy fix by having VPNs add random background noise data.
It sounds sophisticated to the layman