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Dropped $200 on a VPN service that logged everything anyway
About 6 months ago I got paranoid after reading about some ISP selling browsing data. Paid $200 upfront for a two year VPN subscription from some company that had decent reviews. Fast forward to last month and I found out they were logging connection timestamps and IPs the whole time. Their privacy policy had a loophole buried in the fine print. Has anyone else gotten burned by a VPN that promised no logs but delivered the opposite?
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jennyp1921d ago
$200 for a VPN that logged everything ouch, that's like me paying for a gym membership and just using the parking lot. I once paid $150 for a "no log" service and found out later they were basically keeping a diary of every site I visited. Lesson learned hard, now I just assume every VPN is lying until proven otherwise.
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skyler_smith8521d ago
jennyp19 that "diary of every site I visited" bit cracked me up because yeah that's exactly what it feels like. but honestly is it really that serious? i mean unless you're doing some shady stuff online who cares if they log your visits to youtube and reddit. most people just use vpns to watch netflix from another country or get around school wifi blocks. the only people who should freak out are the ones doing actual illegal stuff and even then a $200 vpn isn't gonna save you from the feds anyway. seems like a lot of paranoia over something that barely affects your daily life.
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