2026-07-22 09:10 UTC
@protonprivacy@mastodon.social
I'd trust my ISP more than random foreign VPN service provider who really exists to provide evasion of geolocation based blocking.
Geolocation based on IP and blocking by location are both immoral. But that's a different issue.
The use case for VPNs is secure access to your own office or home when away, and that doesn't need a 3rd party that can spy on you.
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@blipcast@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 14:37
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @protonprivacy@mastodon.social I evaluate these kinds of things by looking at who has a healthier business model. For ISPs, they have a bigger incentive to serve the interests of advertisers and anyone who wants access to your data, because if you're like me, you don't have many options for ISPs, they have a mono/duopoly. A paid VPN however is highly incentivized to serve their customers, because if they don't, it's very easy to drop them in favor of a competitor.