If you’re using a VPN to stay safe, this will anger you.
You were told a VPN would shield you. Protect your data. Keep you anonymous. But what if the tool you downloaded for privacy was literally designed to watch you?
This video uncovers the full story behind the most dangerous VPN ever made—used by Facebook to spy on teenagers—and how today’s most trusted VPNs are following the same exact blueprint.
If you’ve ever felt unsure about who to trust online, this video will give you the receipts, the checklist, and the countermeasures you actually need.
Inside this video, you’ll learn:
• How Facebook turned a “privacy app” into a surveillance weapon
• The Israeli cyber intel unit behind Onavo and why it matters
• What Project Ghostbusters did to break HTTPS encryption
• Why 20+ top VPNs are secretly owned by spyware vendors
• The real story behind ExpressVPN, Kape Technologies, and fake “independent” review sites
• The 7-point checklist every VPN must pass to be trusted
• Better tools to protect yourself: DoH, hardened Firefox, Tor, browser isolation, and more
I think I’m dramatically overestimating normal people’s understanding of computers.
I know a VPN isn’t a cloaking device. I just want my ISP to not know what I’m looking up, and my website top not know where I am located.
Yeah the whole reason I started using a VPN was because the United States government made it legal for Internet service providers to sell our browsing data, and I am forced to use Comcast due to a monopoly in my area on broadband Internet, and I want to give them as little profit as possible.
A VPN will help with the first, but probably not the second item.
GeoIP lookups will get fooled by VPNs, but that’s not the only way to figure out where you’re located. A browser leaks a ton of information that can be used to validate your location, and public VPN endpoints are fairly well known (that’s why you can see YouTube/Netflix blocking known VPN egresses.
Knowing I’m using a VPN is not the same as knowing where I’m using it from.
The browser thing is bloody irritating, though.