Technology & Social Media Which VPN are you using?

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  1. bunkai

    bunkai Well-Known Member

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    Nambis - I am a Pisces not a LEO. Am not a law enforcement officer either lol.

    Re tracking. I am talking about a mobile phone. Haven't you noticed that those people have stopped following you around ;)

    The thing is that an IP Address is not the only way to track you or identify who you are when using a traditional web browser. Google, Facebook et al have plenty of ways to do this across many sites. Browser privacy add layers of tracking protection but there is not much protection for browser fingerprinting that I have seen. Everyone should have basic tracking prevention add ins installed tho.

    TOR, unless you are worried about the NSA, is good and generous of the US government to fund it. But using it is like raising a big red flag;)
     
  2. Momentum

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    Ah so you're talking about a mobile phone being used as a tracking/recording device. I guess that applies to people who don't use burner phones. Probably also applies to the same attention whores who use fakebook and also think Google infrastructure is safe lol. Thanks anyway.
     
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    I find burner phones too hot and really expensive to keep topping up.
     
  4. Tim86

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    Film and tv companies download illegal torrents of their media that someone has put up on a torrent site. Once downloaded they are now part of the torrent network and they automatically upload the content. They note down all the ip addresses of people downloading off of them. Then they take legal action against those Ips.

    If you get a vpn then your ip first goes through the vpns server. So the ip that the film company copies down is the vpns ip. They then write to the vpn asking for the users details and the vpn replies "we dont keep no details". So the user is protected.

    This is useful if you cant wait the extra week it takes for Rick and Morty to make it to netflix and you have to torrent it to watch it now. Not that Im the sort of person who would do that.

    Wubba lubba dub dub!
     
  5. Newyproperty

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    You said you were using a private tracker because the communication is encrypted assuming here that you're downloading torrents. I said thats not going to save you, assuming you're downloading illegal content. If its not illegal then, i assume by your post, that you don't care what others see what you do online so why use a private tracker in the first place?

    A VPN gives you almost complete anonymity, and if not complete privacy, it does make you a more difficult target. Free to download all the freaky porn you like without anyone knowing!
     
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  6. Dan Donoghue

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    A private tracker has an encrypted database, people can't get your details out of the database unlike a public tracker where it is a completely open database (Hence why no one gets a cease and desist notice from the various movie governing boards when using private trackers).

    I have never needed a VPN, let me turn this around, why do you need to be anonymous online? I totally respect everyone's right to choose one way or the other but as a VPN user, what is it that you need protecting from?
     
  7. Dan Donoghue

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    ????? I was a part of the anti piracy team for the record label I used to work for*, we didn't "write down people's IP's" An IP is a useless string because you have no legal right to get the person's details.

    The movie company can send a cease and desist to the ISP (which you can determine from the IP on a whois lookup) what the ISP choose to do with it is up to them (usually throw it in the bin just like the VPN company).

    *Tech stuff for those interested, what we actually used to do in the days of limewire and all that was find our content, produce a 30 second loop of the track and name it the same then drop it on a bunch of high speed servers we had, people would search, always pick the fastest ones and download absolute crap :p.

    Another thing I did when we started our own store was put all our MP3's up at 320 KBPS CBR, this was the biggest the file possibly could be, this was back in the days of limited and expensive bandwidth, people would think twice about sharing larger files back then :p.
     
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    Yeah youd know more about it than me :)
     
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  9. geoffw

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    A big use for VPN for me is foreign language subtitles (sometimes dubbing) available on Netflix in other countries. Although there may be a limited range of subtitle languages here, I'm interested in Spanish, and I've never seen that as an option. Choosing English speech with Spanish subtitles, or vice versa, helps me in my language learning. (There are some Spanish language titles available here on Netflix but in Latin America just about any show is available with Spanish language options).

    Not all ExpressVPN countries function with Netflix.