Some myths about VPN

Even if my VPN provider owns and manages the network, I can be anonymous!

Most VPN providers do not start their own, but use hosting provider networks, which allows them to fully control incoming and outgoing traffic. Listening to Internet traffic gives you access to a huge amount of correlation and identification of user activity.

For example, if you listen to two people who speak in a restaurant you can learn enough from the conversation to >determine who is speaking - even if you do not know their personality when you start listening. If the VPN provider >does not launch its routers, then it can not control who listens to their users.

Any logging is bad

By collecting the minimum amount of data, VPN providers can greatly improve your experience when using VPN. VPN providers should only save a minimum amount of data to manage their business and delete this data as soon as they are not needed.

Minimal logging provides VPN users with the following benefits:

• Improved speed and performance, allowing VPN providers to optimize network connections

• Increased reliability, allowing VPN providers to identify and eliminate the problem of preventing outages

• Elimination of specific customer problems, including speed, communications and application issues

• Different levels of accounts to meet customer needs, such as connecting limited accounts and bytes of restricted accounts

• Protection against abuse by spammers, port scanners, DDOS, etc., so VPN providers can remove clients that abuse other Internet users.

Private companies do not collect or sell my data

Companies offering a product or service of confidentiality does not mean that they will keep their data confidential. This is especially true for companies that offer free services to users. When using the privacy tool from you is often required to provide access to more information than their tool can protect, so you must trust the company and carefully read their terms of use.

• Onavo (from Facebook)

Facebook bought a VPN application called Onavo in 2013 Why did Facebook buy a VPN application? Because the VPN functionality gives the application visibility into the communication network for the entire phone. Consequently, information such as URLs and application usage is affected, and Facebook can verify the user's activity for their own purposes. The cost for free is just too high.

Privacy Policy: "When using the Service, you select the route of all your mobile data traffic through, or, Onavo's servers. As a result, we receive information about you, your activity on the Internet, and the device or browser when you use the Services."

• HOLA

Hola is another criminal under the guise of a company about privacy. Hola offers a "safe browsing" for its users, but recently it has been openly stated that it will sell the bandwidth of its free users without their knowledge, turning them into a botnet.

Privacy Policy: "Personal Information collect and keep include your IP address, your name and email address in case you provide us with this information (for example when opening an account or if you contact us through the" contact us "option), screen name, payment and billing information (if you buy premium services) or other information we can ask from time to time as it will be necessary to provide services. "

• Web Proxy Services

Many companies that offer services that help you be "anonymous" online actually collect a lot of personal and identifying information about their users - information that they could sell.

All VPNs use the same software

A recent study indicated that some VPN products might suffer from DNS leakage and IPv6 vulnerability, which means that many users need to think twice about which VPN to purchase for protection on the Internet. not all virtual private networks are created equal. When it comes to IPv6 leakage, many clients fail and fail this test. As for the DNS vulnerability, most VPN providers do not use their DNS servers. When DNS queries are sent through third parties to third-party networks, DNS servers, users are most vulnerable to monitoring, recording, or manipulating traffic.

Thor is a better alternative than VPN

Tor is often cited as an alternative to using VPN. However, as several publications correctly noted, Tor does not make you anonymous. Even Tor admits that he can not solve all the problems of anonymity and warns users about some dangers and habits. Thor is difficult for the average Internet user in thin settings, and users often complain that Tor is slow. One publication even says: "If you still trust Tor to feel safe, you are crazy."

All these mentioned above myths and misconceptions are very often encountered.

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