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Facebook bought a VPN company and deployed it, in part, to spy on its users. (techcrunch.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is the problem with using VPN services in general, you have to have complete trust in the service provider.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The only thing that actually matters is the jurisdiction. If your hosting provider is in a place that the country you live in can't legally force to hand the data over then you're much better off than using a service that may be sharing data with your government.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The topic in question here is not about government abuse of data, it's corporate abuses, but okay, let's set that aside.

You've said that it's safer to roll your own VPN using a VPS service precisely because you can't trust any VPN providers, or auditing organizations.

But you're now saying that you can trust a hosting provider based solely on which jurisdiction they reside in.

You're just arbitrarily picking which companies to trust with your connection traffic, but with added complexity, and significantly reduced egress locations for your traffic, which itself dramatically impacts any privacy benefits you were looking to achieve.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

First of all, nowhere did I say anything about trusting any hosting provider. The point once again was about jurisdiction of the provider. Meanwhile, there's nothing more arbitrary about picking a hosting provider than a VPN.