jsr on Nostr: The wild and horrid thing is that the answer is: sorta. Yes when you use a VPN your ...
The wild and horrid thing is that the answer is: sorta.
Yes when you use a VPN your ISP can't passively collect your data (though through DPI they can know what VPN you are using & possibly the IP of your endpoint)...
But plenty of ISPs user data businesses are already enriching data profiles about you from things like advertising exchanges & surveillance SDKs that will keep working (& are still uniquely associated with you) through the VPN's tunnel. Which is a horrible reality of the multiply tracked digital shitscape.
Yes when you use a VPN your ISP can't passively collect your data (though through DPI they can know what VPN you are using & possibly the IP of your endpoint)...
But plenty of ISPs user data businesses are already enriching data profiles about you from things like advertising exchanges & surveillance SDKs that will keep working (& are still uniquely associated with you) through the VPN's tunnel. Which is a horrible reality of the multiply tracked digital shitscape.