Now this part might be important, because hiding stuff from your ISP is a legitimate concern in countries like China or Russia, or if you're forced to use an ISP who's a piece of crap and will try to block or throttle certain types of traffic (traffic to IPs known to belong to Netflix or torrent trackers etc.). huge chunks of encrypted traffic to visible and readable IP addresses.
Please note that the VPN provider sees the exact same traffic as the malicious coffee shop owner whose WiFi you're on would see if you weren't using a VPN, i.e. Privacy-wise, using a VPN will hide that tiny remaining bit of data you might be leaking (like DNS, essentially "websites you're looking at", not specific pages, just hosts like or ) and then expose all that somewhere else, where your ISP can't see it, but everyone else can, including your VPN provider, any router on the way from the VPN provider to the DNS server and the DNS server itself. Using a VPN won't protect you from anything in any way.Īlmost all traffic from and to your machine is already encrypted (HTTPS) and the stuff that isn't (like DNS) is a matter of privacy, not security. being able to access your home NAS from the internet) (I'm using the term "VPN" to mean "proxy with a nice name", like NordVPN, not an actual VPN set up for e.g. Click to expand.I don't use a VPN, and it's because the answer to that question is "none".
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