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Old Aug 7, 2019 | 9:43 am
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Originally Posted by PackingIt
Completely agree. That said, VPNs are so inexpensive nowadays, and I appreciate the peace of mind it gives me to use one when using public wifi
As long as you trust the VPN provider. Using a vpn is just trading trust from the local isp to the vpn provider. Either way it’s irrelevant if you’re using TLS, which you should be in this day and age of https being more of a standard.

There are are a few different concerns at hand here, and vpn probably isn’t solving the problem you think you are trying to solve. But as my friend says, you do you.
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