Everybody knows free VPN's sell your data to the highest bidders, because that's how they create their money.
That's why if u go the VPN route its important u pick a VPN that charges u for it. And if you want to get a good one u look at their court encounters and see if they provide logs.
Seems like OP is extremely out of the loop when it involves VPN solutions.
Sorry but VPN's are legit as hell and they are used for many reasons such as.
- View content not allowed in your country, this can be as little as news websites from other country's.
- Get access to all content on the web without them being able to identify you.
- Hide your Identity and IP towards not only your government but also everybody else. ( goverments in lots of country's are a real pain )
- Reroute connections to better connections when your route to the servers is having issue's, for example if you game online a lot.
- Download do whatever u want without people watching u do stuff or get hit by fines or be cut off by your goverment.
- Prevents attacks against u.
- Better deals online.
Internet in my country without a VPN in 2020, nope not even once.
I use a VPN for half of my daily activities, one I contributed to setting up for the company I work for.
I am not out of the loop, I just don’t enjoy adding more middlemen between me and the data I send/request.
Also, while VPNs are good for accessing content with geo restrictions, they aren’t good for anonymizing your traffic. I work specifically on targeting & identification of individuals, and there are a dozen fingerprinting mechanisms that don’t require your IP Adress or cookies. Are they legal? No, but it still doesn’t stop the bad actors from using them.
This shouldn't be that big of an issue right? Logs would only show traffic which is generally too obscure to be useful. And the passwords would only be for the VPN itself, so unless you were foolish enough to reuse that password elsewhere it shouldn't matter. A VPN wouldn't save passwords for sites you visit unless they were deliberately doing shady spying stuff.
The logs contain your source IP, web request destination, and a timestamp.These logs can then be correlated with an identify graph and/or another dataset that has recorded traffic from your source IP during the specific timestamp.
For example, many bad actors will send emails to random emails addresses to capture the IP address associated with it. When the target individual opens the email, the email client renders an identification pixel, an HTTP request backed by a server that logs the IP along with the email address; no need to click any link. These datasets are sold on the black market to eventually build an identify graph around an individual. If you are a high value target, they'll use that dataset for the purposes of finding a weak point between your online identities, or perhaps social engineering.
Routing all of your traffic through a third party along with that of thousands other individuals is a recipe for disaster. VPNs are useful, but you need to understand the inner workings of them, and preferably set them up yourself. You cannot just subscribe to a random service and assume you are safe. In most cases, you are increasing your security risk
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