VPN INSIDER'S MYTH-BUSTING! Separating Fact from Fiction: How VPNs Really Work
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2024
- As a VPN Service Provider, I can tell you the truth about VPN's. They are not the end-all. They do not protect everything. And they can be vulnerable IF you don't understand the limitations. This is a particularly important discussion for people in Brazil who are now threatened with a $9000 daily fine for using a VPN. Can you get caught if you use it? What can the government see? What does it really protect? Are there substitutes like iCloud Private Relay or other alternatives?
VPN's are banned in other countries like China and Saudi Arabia. Can you use it anyway?
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As a retired Network Architect, this is one of the best tutorials I've ever seen on the subject of individual use VPN. Thanks......😀
Greetings: Thx 4 the share
While VPN's are great for hiding location, there some drawbacks to consider. 1. Slows down the connection speed and increases latency. 2. Funnels all your traffic through a single point 3. 99% of sites are already HTTPS/TLS encrypted). 4. Costs extra money.
Thanks for this I must admit I didn't have a clue before I watched this, and. now I'm going to have to find out what sites and apps can give my location.
@@BillAnt I would argue that with modern throughputs speed the introduction of a VPN in the route is less of an issue than it used to be. I have tested my various connection points with and without VPNs and I can comfortably saturate any of them with regards to speed even while connected through a VPN. The latency could go up somewhat though, so in some cases (mainly gaming related for regular users) it could have a very slight detrimental effect on your experience.
@@DrBovdin - I agree speeds are ok especially with WireGuard, but there's no way around latency when you have a VPN (aka Men-In-The-Middle). Every millisecond ads up while fetching the elements of web-pages and of course for gaming. Pros and cons. I just don't like the idea of fueling all my traffic through a single choke point.
here in Brazil a 9k fine would literally ruin the life of 90% of people
Chambinho can't enforce that. It's just fear tactic.
prob 96%
Isn’t it amazing how the world is completely controlled by .01 percent of psychopaths who have been born into the role of controlling the masses by any means imaginable! If you don’t have a problem and barely surviving you’re probably not that concerned but when you are shunned by society and deemed mental illness it’s hard not to be pissed off.. anyone who knows the truth is automatically a mental case
@@W4rriorOfLightthey just threatening other than a small group that will be the ones who get whipped across their back but financially.. we all slaves to the “masters” like it or not
Nobody needs to read twitter. What's the fuss about?
*I have a one single rule when it comes to any VPN, if any of them advertise (No Logs) but when you go to there terms and conditions and they have tons of reason they collect data it’s than it’s an instant no!. Tons of VPNs do this, I highly recommend to always read the terms and conditions always!!!*
Good recommendation!
@officialnotesonlifepodcast
Actually, read the agreement if you use micro soft, just don't blindly accept it.
Any security you thought you had with a vpn is lost anyway by merely accepting the terms of the micro soft license.
Why should you trust that the terms and conditions are truthful, complete and accurate? Who actually checks that they are doing what they say they are or are not doing?
indeed if you are going the way of security and privacy, make sure you first have an OS that supports this way )
like linux )
Lookup windscribe's logs policy, it is a good read
This video is why I trust "you Rob" thanks for being transparent 🤘🏼
Absolutely, he is clear and instructive even through he has a store.
@@johnrieley1404Even Rob need to put food on table
You rob? TOUCHÉ. These jokes write themselves.
I don't particularly prefer to use a VPN because it masks my location. I'm more looking for the encryption of my internet traffic so that my ISP, for instance, doesn't know what I'm doing at any point in time.
Shocking fact: your ISP cares about making a profit by selling their service, not what people do on the internet.
That lead me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Let's say you're planning to do something most people would see as horrific, but you want to maintain anonymity. If I were running an ISP, I'd want to avoid having customers using my hardware in that way. Encryption seems to go against an ISP's ability to safeguard from liability.
@@aradesh1134 If someone is planning to do something horrific and they use a public roadway to carry out that horrific act, does that make the local, state, or federal government liable because they use that roadway In the process of carrying out that horrific deed? No. Do we possibly know what everyone is doing on all those public roadways? No. Do we have some lawmakers that want to know and want laws in place to be able to track each one of us as we travel in our vehicles up and down public roadways? Yes. What are people's concerns for why they are against the government knowing those kinds of things? Those chief concerns are privacy.
Don't you think this same analogy could be applied to people using the internet? Blaming the ISP for a potentially unlawful activity that one or more of its users might carry out using its service would be equivocal to holding the owner of a roadway responsible for a driver carrying out a crime and using said roadway in the process. It's an absurd notion, I think.
@@UntakenNick sadly, they do care what we do on the internet in varying degrees. Why do these companies choose to limit or block certain kinds of traffic that flows on their service? If all they cared about was making a profit, then they wouldn't do that kind of thing.
@@aradesh1134 Knowing what you're doing would make them liable, not the other way around.
I used your IP-Check tool to test my IP connection on (1) Comcast, no VPN, (2) Using a private VPN that is served out of a data center I control, and (3) Proton VPM. In all three cases, your tool says I am NOT using a VPN. Clearly, my VPNs are not very private. I would love to see a more in depth discussion of why this might be the case.
Are you using Windows? Especially Windows 11. They like to bypass any VPN services because they think they own you which they do.
@@angelmarauder5647 I am well aware of Windows' tendency to enforce split tunneling and keep their telemetry connections open directly to their servers. There are ways to bypass that, but you have to dig into the registry, and tweak a few settings that can only be reached with an administrator powershell. I spent some long hours fighting that battle a few years ago. I don't imagine it has gotten better since. But that is precisely WHY I don't use Windows (except when I must, for an unenlightened customer). So, no, this test I referenced was on a Mac, which has generally been better behaved. But clearly, it would appear that Apple has implemented some of Microsoft's bad ideas. It is increasingly becoming the case that if you want to keep things private, you simply MUST be on Linux. Neither MacOS nor Windows (10 or 11) can be trusted.
@@angelmarauder5647 Want to know what the meaning of futile is.... try to completely get rid of Defender ... and I mean completely.
I run 11 as a virtual machine and I do not need any of that shit . I had to go thru hell and back, registry tweaks, host files to get it to stop with it's bullshit and warnings. even to this day I still have Antimalware core and service executable hanging out in my task manager
I lived in China ten years ago and used a VPN to get through "the Great Firewall". It worked, but not for long. The Central Government put so many resources into hunting down and shutting down the ports that the most you could count on was a few days. (Sometimes, a few hours.) After that, you had to change servers and connection protocols. I got good at it and was generally able to get through. But, it was a hassle. My understanding this that it is far harder to do this in the PRC today. Whether Brazil is willing to go this far remains to be seen. Then again, I was using my VPN mostly to access TH-cam, Netflix, etc.. A lot of these countries have their own local or regional equivalents. (Ex. No one in China pays to stream movies.) So, in the end Brazilians may not care enough to try to access Twitter. A lot of the country is too poor to afford a VPN service. Among the others who can, they generally use whatever works for staying in touch with other Brazilians. If this only damages some of Twitter's services, it may be enough for most Brazilians to dump Twitter.
I worked in China and SE Asia about ten years and had a similar experience as you. In the beginning I used Express VPN. I quit working three years ago and spent the last 18 months in the US.
I went to China two months ago to meet friends and from Nanning to Beijing express VPN did not work.
I ended up just using my Verizon data which is not fast but works well. I was afraid I would have a monster phone bill but I did not. I didn't take time to see what the international service cost was.
I am a full time crypto miner and have 80 Deeper Connect Mini in the US, which is a Decentralized VPN, it is a device not an app. Also have a few in Bangkok where I live. You buy the device and there are no other cost, plus they earn about five bucks a month.
Could you have used TOR in order to get around the firewall?
@@BuceGar My VPN had onion server options, but they didn't always work well. I've been told that the Central Government has been blocking TOR since 2010. I'd believe it. The fact is that 10 years ago, they were pretty damned good at blocking all protocols. Today, my friends there tell me things are much worse.
The biggest crowds in Twitter are Americans, indians and Brazilians.
Thanks for the practicality and history class on how this works and what can be done.
Interesting rob , and it is looking more and more likely that all these things will be needed as we progress
Rob, the Brazil government could see who is sending traffic to a VPN (without knowing, yet, that it is a VPN), by seeing that, aside from an initial DNS lookup by the user (for the client to connect to the VPN), no other DNS lookups have been requested by the user. And yet, lots of data passing between the user and the ISP. Or am I mistaken?
I do not know the laws in Brazil. But when they outlaw X, and they have no freedom of speech, then I would imagine that the Brazil police might be ordered to round up anyone using a VPN service, or to break in to people's homes who are suspected of using a VPN service. Thus, if my first paragraph is correct, the citizens of Brazil might get their doors kicked in if they have only 1 DNS lookup, followed by streams and streams of encrypted data, 100% of which is going to a single IP address in a foreign country.
And it is only a matter of time before the Brazil authorities identify who owns the target IP address.
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Logs:
Courts can order a VPN service provider to keep logs, and also issue a gag order, not allowing the VPN service provider to reveal the court order for them to keep logs.
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I see VPN services as glorified proxy servers, that are highly attractive to governments.
There are legitimate uses for VPN services. But I would never trust one where my freedom would be at stake, and be at the whim of an anonymous VPN employee handing over my data to the authorities.
Just use Tor browser with the VPN and you’re 100% safe.
@@rashidismail9537 I do not know.
cutting one's nose to spite in own face
Brazil is headed to Venezuela.
"Courts can order a VPN service provider to (...)"
Brazil has no jurisdiction in the US while Israel would certainly be given any information, they demand on behalf of national security - it is even likely that the drama is a ruse to have citizens of Brazil to migrate their data into the US thus having leverage over a BRICS member.
Understanding the geopolitics of telecommunication is a factor: Chinese companies won't likely sell data to the US and vice versa when in a state of Cold War - that is the position of the consumer wherever they have residency - hence the popularity of Swiss bank accounts in the past and British Commonwealth oversea trusts that can't be forced to comply with British law.
@@christophmahlerAwesome comment.
Thanks Rob, I love your clips! I am in Europe and have to use VPN to access RT and sometimes to protect my privacy, since I am a dissident...
Are you dissidenting right now?
Make sure your own private vpn servers allow you to configure it to clear all connection data after you use them..
First, does the VPN actually own its network and servers?
Second, many VPN companies claim to be located in a non-Five Eyes nation, but this is a front. I personally knocked on the door a VPN company, and no VPN company was there. A Google Map search can find this.
Third, many VPN companies use virtual servers with virtual IPs to save cost. They claim you're connecting to a specific nation, but don't be surprised if your data is being routed to an entirely different location. In one instance, while in the USA and connecting to a nearby USA server, my data was being routed to Japan with huge delays!
This is why I have been using your VPN for almost two years Rob!!!! I also have your email and phone services. I cannot thank you enough for doing what you do Sir!
I need to up my game
VPN is very secure IF, we set the operating system and the browser very well. Lot of people think, they just run vpn and it will mask every personal identification. NO, We have to set it very well + test it regulary.
Being secure, even if it were true, is not identical with guaranteeing your privacy.
@@etziowingeler3173 Can be identical with privacy, if you set your system and browser the proper way. VPN provider will not track you because, they can close their business is somebody will find it out. Of course i'm talking about paid, and strict no-logs policy VPN.
You dont need vpn if you look for security
Most people aren't tech savvy enough and tech companies know it, abuse that knowledge.
Rob, two things you did not mention, and they are BIG: 1) any VPN choice boils down to one factor, do you TRUST that VPN to be as they represent themselves? How many "honey pots" are there out there? If I were a three-letter intel agency, I would invest a lot of resources into creating a front. How much would it cost to have a bad actor pretending to be a good actor? Rob, YOU could be an intel-agent, making six-figures every single month to PRETEND to be a good guy. Rob, you could talk forever and never be able to provide PROOF that you are not a front for a honey pot. If anyone buys YOUR VPN service, they are doing so, 100-percent on TRUST that you say you are who you say you are;
2) given that a small percentage of really BAD people will use a VPN to download and share pictures and videos that are the kind that will get any holder a very LONG prison sentence, there is a very high likelihood that such illegal activities and illegal videos/images have been routed through YOUR VPN. So now, don't YOU have a problem? An intel-agency could show up with a COURT ORDER in hand, forcing YOU to install logs and to provide incriminating information to the agency... and the COURT will require you to NOT say a word to anyone. This kinda-sorta compromises everything, no? You might be 100-percent honest and real. You could be legit, yet there could be the equivalent of a THUG with a $5 wrench standing over your shoulder, forcing you to RAT OUT every customer, every URL visited, every illegal activity... forcing you to install logs, forcing you to remain quiet, and forcing you to comply with the THUG, 100-percent. A bit of a problem, no?
These are great points mate, it would be horrifying to be set up , and using a VPN is certainly a tool that could be used to do so.
Interesting and disturbing points.
Rob mentioned that his servers don’t have sufficient storage to make a usable log.
so , the fascist judge is telling people not to post fascist stuff ? 😒😒😒😒😒😒
My fascism is good fascism and your fascism is bad fascism. Pretty much sums up human Civilization boils down to
@@reekinronald6776 yes great reply , so true 👍
@@reekinronald6776it’s one step higher than that, my cult is gooder than your cult.
I trust good VPN/DNS provider companies far FAR more than I trust my local ISP/DNS.
Would a VPN be useful if you are the victim of a stingray attack? Or, if your Internet traffic is being spied on from a remote source?
A vpn didn't help Steve Irwin😥
Excellent information about the realities of VPN use. Obviously, they really are a useful part of our 'security layer'.
As a seperate topic I visited the 'Geo' website. It showed that I could be located by 'wireless' data. Ouch.
I realized I needed to switch off 'Geolocation' from my browser. Embarrasing, not a major issue for me. However, it was an excellent reminder about us needing to be careful about how we use the 'internet' as regards privacy with web browsers.
Thanks for all your work. It really is appreciated. :)
Two things occur to me re VPN. Always assume that you are being overheard everywhere always. If you do not wish to have overheard what you are saying do not use any electronic media and do not be anywhere near any other electronic device. This is why such conversations in the films are held in secure gardens whilst walking around!
I was also going to suggest using a pager but that now seems somewhat problematic too😂
It’s all very important that while using a VPN, that you are not leaking any DNS traffic that can point back to you.
"Staring Rob Braxman." Will we be able to get autographed headshots soon?! 😂❤
13 years in devops, and over 20 years in dev/IT. this is literally the first time i heard the term "VPN Insiders".
Just a little note Rob: If a company/service/agency are using a real good security system they should be able to filter "Source" and "Origin" without guessing. That way...you cant "cheat" the destination. In fact, most of those company/service/agency "encourage" that the first line of defense would be more open than the basic generic servers. Why? To be able to collect as much data they can and... spy.
Any VPN usage can be detected by deep packet inspection. In China, any VPN connection usually lasts less than a day, then it gets blocked. Exception: users of foreign data plans, Wifi in top hotels.
How does the MITM get a trusted certificate on your device?
Greetings: Skynet exists...masked as other names. Usually 3 characters.
No log policy is key in a vpn provider
I use proton vpn and mail they have a strict no log policy and have been audited many times successfully showing no data stored it's a Swiss company and Switzerland is very strict on protecting freedoms and privacy
@@Nomad-v6Proton is it. Been using them nearly 2 years now. I've had zero issues with them.
My main reason to use a VPN is to block ads. Services like Twitch force ads on you based on your geo location, determined by your IP. If you come from a rich country with a rather common language, a lot of companies run ads on platforms like Twitch. One example is German (I'm originally from Germany, living in Switzerland). If I'm connected to a German ISP, Twitch runs ads 2-3 times per hour with ads as long as 3 minutes. This is annoying to say the least. If I switch to a Swiss ISP, ads already go down to maybe 1-2 ads per day, usually 30 seconds in length. If I connect to a tiny country (e.g. Luxembourg) or a poor country (Albania), I see an 10 second ad maybe once every 2 months.
It's sad, that the Internet became with global ad platform. But there are ways around it, for the moment.
I make it a rule to not deal with any company that advertises to me. Sometimes I cut my nose off to spite my face but it makes me happy 😂
I lived in China for 5 years and we all used VPN and I never heard of anyone having a problem.
digital awareness is so less in all of us who foolishly believe assume that they are educated ones and feeling living dignified life is so stupid. I got stuck into legal battle with real estate mafias who later got the digital help then got in to my computer and mobile and loot some cryptos there and made privacy in to hell. In this connection I even tried seekin help with my basic rights protecting officials, unfortunately it didn't work. In digital age common citizen is so helpless he simply doesn't know whats going on with him and perpetrators will be looking n controlling at his private life like mean gods .
If I have to give a company my data in order for others not to have access to that data... It's mafia-protection... Under what guarantee is my data safe with the former rather then the latter.
WebRTC, location data and browser canvas fingerprint are not blocked by a VPN. People need to get educated on this. Also, deleting a file from Windows doesn't delete the file name from the master file table. Lots of data being collected, even if you have disabled One Drive.
All computers have a back door to the Pentagon, right?
Years ago I had a job at an internet company.
To look at traffic issues had to look at users browsing.
Interestingly, a lot of it was adult corn.
Obviously they weren't using a vpn.
Great video. I run a home VPN server via a R-Pi mainly to give me secure access to my own home network without having to open ports. I'd be fascinated to know how your, and other VPNs connect with other servers throughout the world, are they all VPN servers in their own right?
hey i activated a vpn and it doesn't show me on your site, maybe i got good security on browser?
Your IP is xxx
Your IP does not appear to be protected. If you do not have a VPN, you need one! Someone is recording this IP and tracking all your Internet activities.
I'd suggest trying another ip reveal site. There are lots of them. Your browser will not hide your IP by itself as the website you are visiting needs to have an IP to send the data to. Like if you want to mail someone a letter you need to have some address whether that address is someone's real home address or a post office box.
Using Brave with location turned off, your test site still shows the correct time zone and IP (unless i turn the VPN on). The maps are blank in all cases and turning on location permission on the browser makes no difference.
Very interesting... But do you accept Monero for payment for ultimate privacy?
Great explanation. The point where guests in your network can expose your identity is creepy. I have no router with VPN. I may download a third party firmware.But thats also risky in a way.
If you’re behind a web proxy server, it will appear as multiple hosts are using the same IP address too.
Something else to consider is most employer provided mobile devices (computers, smart phones) use a vpn to connect to the company’s network to access resources.
"Posting fascist comments"
Does that mean Brazilian liberals are not allowed to post on twitter?
Very informative. I keep location services off, and if it is demanded, I refuse and quit. I just got a new phone, yeah, I know, not de-googled but no longer Apple, and it will not let me access my photos unless I give permission to use Google cloud services. Thus, no photos! All my lenses are covered, been doing that for years. So, the noose tightens!
The problem is the ACCESSIBILITY, I am in China, if I use a router VPN many Chinese APP stop to function because they cannot access outside locations. So if I want to go to blocked websites than I will switch it on.
I hate how it is now complicated to have any personal privacy,I don`t understand any of this technical language whatsoever.
I Rob, thanks for the video. I tried to visit and navigate to your website, but it's a bit cumbersome. I am very confused as to how to purchase the VPN or any other product you sell.
There is nothing cumbersome. Brax.Me is NOT A STORE. It is a social media site. It HAS A STORE. When you join then you have access to the store. Over 100K people there
Correction Rob. Apple's iPhone is available in China, but its private relay service is unavailable in China.
Hey Rob, off subject, i know how you feel about google but can you give me what you think about what play store is doing with their security lockdown of users side loading an app and google will remove it and all data. Sounds like they are setting up a way to keep people from communicating. I understand that a user could download malicious code.
Nord vpn is total crap. It spontaneously drops and asks for your login credentials even when you are in auto kill mode.
Sorry you had to learn about it this way
I have not seen this behavior from their product over the past two years as I have used it.
Apart from the interruption of dropping why would this be a privacy concern? If the VPN drops nothing has any internet connection so browsers won't be showing your IP address to anyone because they can't connect to the internet. That's what autokill is for.
The login app of the VPN is not a concern since they already know your IP.
Try restarting your computer occasionally?
@@linsqopiring6816 what happens is nordVpn suddenly just isn't on and the kill switch hasn't killed anything. So im on the internet with no vpn, totally exposed. I've had it happen to me repeatedly on multiple macbooks. Complete garbage product. Im going to move to proton Vpn or brave vpn.
What are your thoughts regarding the Great Reset, and the World Economic Forum indicating, "You will have no privacy, and you will be happy."
I feel that the very concept of there being no privacy would present problems for even federal agencies, as they require high levels of privacy to protect their interests. This is why there is a security clearance system.
The problem with no-privacy is that some govt people will *interpret* your communication as good/bad/irrelevant/sick and so a judgment will be inserted. If the interpretation is political then you may as well leave the country. All this leads to govt mistrust and it is the beginning of the end. AI can even make it worse because AI judges on the data baseline that could be political. Forcing vaccination by govt, for example, could have its source in profiteering or mind control (or both).
Rules for thee
elites eat steak
we eat bugs
It is very easy to deploy a VPS and install wireguard, it is just basic configuration, no fancy knowledge required.
Do you mean a VPN?
@@markylon Use AWS or Linode and load up an ubuntu server instance with low hardware requirements so it is cheap. Then you can connect to it via VPN connection. Only you are using the VPN so it wont be flagged as one. You can change your IP or move your instance to another region of the world with a few mouse clicks.
Wireguard is easily detected and can be banned. Yeas it s easy to setup and use but…Use vless reallity or something similar instead.
@@markylon some people prefer to deploy Wireguard protocol on a VPS and create their own VPN service rather than subscribing to a commercial VPN Providers. I believe you must choose the hosting service provider carefully or it’s just as useless as average commercial VPN.
@@DownedHarambe I have my own vps. So not a problem
This must be the best non-sales sales video ever made haha. Thx for the awesome explanation, digital sifu
So sad really... thanks for shining some light on this important topic.
VPN are not a magical device any device either.
"Die multikulturelle Gesellschaft ist hart, schnell, grausam und wenig solidarisch, sie ist von beträchtlichen sozialen Ungleichgewichten geprägt und kennt Wanderungsgewinner ebenso wie Modernisierungsverlierer; sie hat die Tendenz, in eine Vielfalt von Gruppen und Gemeinschaften auseinanderzustreben und ihren Zusammenhalt sowie die Verbindlichkeit ihrer Werte einzubüßen. " -
Many questions answered. I have wondered about the VPN maze. Will have to listen to this again. Will check out your site. Thank you.
There used to be a database maintained maybe by cell companies of wifi access points. People walk by and their phones see the wifi access points. If your router network name is captured somebody will know your location. That’s how Netflix could recognize my location in China when I used Apple TV. I had a VPN router but the name of the wifi network was somehow passed to Netflix. I had to hack the Apple TV to disable wifi and use only wired connection. Ten years ago. I wonder if this method is still used.
In Australia the government has installed servers to log all metadata coming in and out of Australian data centres. Rob, does your VPN service have servers in Australia and if so I presume the Aust government is logging all metadata going in and out of them (which we can manage when we know that is going on)?
Well of course VPN providers are monitoring your internet activity and selling your data, just like anyone else. How else they could make profit, while providing their services so cheaply?
That's why you should go with a VPN you trust like Rob's or a big name one. The big name ones have too much to lose.
The tech sector is slowly killing itself by increasingly becoming a net disadvantage to use. So sad but I fear that they are operated by the MBA crowd for a quick buck rather than for the long haul. 😢
I can't imagine why anyone would want to pay 9,000 a day of anything just so they can access X.
So I am a little confused. Some people say you need to use a VPN with Tor. But it sounds like you need to use TOR without a VPN.
Same here,some say not use VPN with TOR the VPN will expose you using TOR???
been subscribed to you since the 2020 election. i still appreciate you even after the huge tech censorship tsunami. ty for continuing to educate
Very impressive rundown on the current VPN ecosystems, business models, and tradeoffs.
Mullvad & it's browser with built in proxy dns seems very good.
Rob, will you please write a book?
You already have the raw material in the scripts you write for your videos. You provide an enormous amount of information in a relatively short period of time. As a result, some of us (me) do not fully understand much of what you are teaching us.
That is where a book could be helpful.
If you read through the "comments" section of prior videos you will get an idea of what kind of questions some of us are asking. You can then address those issues in the book. (It would be similar, in essence, to an edited transcript of one of your Q&A live-streams.)
You have nearly a half-million subscribers; I suspect that a good percentage of us would be eager to turn your book into an Amazon Best Seller!
If I wrote a book, it would be out of date within a year.
Copy that.😅
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I want mine autographed first question has escaped.
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I'm curious how much is your VPN service? If I plan on buying one I would prefer a smaller one like yours. And I also like the fact you don't log and save people's history.
Private Internet Access (PIA), keeps no logs and is proven in the court systems. In real life investigations where they were subpoenaed to hand over information logs, they had none to give.
Your information is so out of date. That was very old. Since then PIA has been bought by an Eastern European company, same as Nord and others. Now since these big companies have lots of data, then they can be approached by 3 letter agencies for a price. Just hypothetically. Why would they ever then get a court case again once there is access? Great for PR and you think everything is safe. Just be cautious with the big companies is all I say.
I don't bother with a VPN 99% as they don't really keep you safer like they advertise. But they do have there use cases for sure...
There is one aspect that is not mentioned. Browser fingerprint. Nobody can see your traffic but the website you are connecting maybe have google services and be able to fingerprint your browser and by that they can know who you are.
if you mention this, it's worth to say the protection against digital fingerprinting. It's using less scripts (blocking them), apply strict rules in browsers (especially good Librewolf, Mullvad) or ultimately using special tool like TOR browser for this. TOR is like 2 in 1, it's a good private browser and TOR network to make it difficult to watch the network traffic
Musk said he wants X to become a subscription based platform, so he knows who you are. He also wants to make X the all in one app, with which you can do any- and everything. Is it about free speecu or power?
Is he really the hero you all think he is?
Well he can't get himself unalived
You know what, though I have complaints about X, I'm not asked to identify myself on X at all. I just have an email. Regardless of your political bias, as a privacy guy, it appears to be one of the safer platforms.
I find it's much easier to simply agree with and repeat the narratives handed down by the ruling class of my country's current government.
13:56 actually ISPs can know the host name of the site you are visiting by doing deep packet inspection.
Brazil's entire internet should be forced through a VPN, before it gets served to them.
Let's say you're a gov't agency and you run the server. ...
@@mscir
I suspect the entire drama is a ruse to have Brazil's citizenry to migrate their data to the US...
China has the great Firewall nothing that they don't want gets through
No thanks I like having the option of lower latency when I'm not transfering sensible information
few people know that a considerable chunk of that market-including three of the six most popular VPNs-is quietly operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to that country’s national security state, including the elite Unit 8200 and Duvdevan Units of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). They in turn cooperate with many state and private actors.
How do you know that? What about tor?
KAPE technologies is Israeli and has more than 3 vpns
But PIA/surf shark are 2 I remember
@@martinluther673 wonder if proton vpn is safe, free stuff usually isn't. Even ad blockers have full access to browsing
Yup.
Ok, naziboy.
I am hoping a service will be offered where I client can login anywhere from a cloud from a platform where even the users machine is completely hidden. Providing safety to internet users is so profitable that actually reducing risks will cut into profits. As it is, logging into sites is so burdensome that it is hardly worth it.
brax.me does not track. It's in our ethos and open source.
I tried to log into my bank from overseas via a VPN and was locked out for suspicious overseas activities
I have always wondered about VPNs and who are behind VPNs - Eastern Europe or China companies? Chinese tech guys have told me NordVPN is ultimately owned and controlled by a Chinese company. Any truth to this?
The first thing that should be said in a video about VPNs is that the term is a misnomer. The correct term is "Proxy". A VPN is a different mechanism for a different purpose.
You are incorrect. Proxy is a completely different protocol than a VPN. This video is not about proxies.
@@robbraxmantech You just repeated what I said.
You do not access Twitter using a VPN. You do that using a Proxy.
Oh you mean use a Proxy from Brazil to skirt this law?
Use of multiple VPN tunnels and Tor makes it much harder to track
Do you have a VPN router that can handle 10gig fiber?
Thank you, Rob.
how the hell are we supposed to know whether or not a vpn is a real thing? we dont havr access to the nuts and bolts. its way too complex for a layman to grasp. just assune the government can see everything you do. The government isn’t revealing how good or bad they are at seeing what we do online.
In the video I told you how to minimize the possibility of that. Including rethinking who your VPN provider is. Bigger is not better.
I'm still sold to your VPN service
In my stupid country of Spain, everyone uses stupid Whatsapp. I have avoided it so far, but it may become a requirement for me at some point, and I fear that...
Get a cheap phone, for WhatsApp only, use your phones hotspot to connect the cheap phone, and run entire cheap phone through a VPN.
@@anandrew6641 doesn't whatsapp require a phone number anyway? Even if I don't run the app on "the good phone", I still have to sell my soul to zuck to use the "service".
Either way right now I'm too broke to buy another smartphone to run zuck's garbech
I only use signal
. anyone who wants to be associated with me can only contact me via signal.. You soon found out who your friends are😉
Just like judges everywhere, this judge is the true fascist!
So what about “private network” that Apple has??
great lesson video for me!!! 🤠 would like a brax router unfortunately with ATT I do not think it would work since they have a proprietary router, what are your thoughts/ideas on this, and am I or am I not able to switch and have their service go/cont through the new secure router??
Biggest hole in VPN is people don't change their DNS server.
So, what happened to TH-cam. Where did my LIKE and Save buttons go to??? Why remove them? I can find Save, but I want it here at the video. I don't download. Recent history too has changed. Every time they try to improve technology they make it worse?!!!? Than on my Braxphone I deleted long history and cookies and now nothing works right. Outlook won't back up and I must usually start over, and my Brave news feed won't work..... Ugh. Some websites don't like my VPN location and I must change it, but than another doesn't like that location. I'm tired of dancing, and all at once. Double ugh.
What do you think about express vpn? They offer device and router options. I just find it really slows down the internet by 90 percent speed wise. The closer the server the faster the service but as soon as you ad all the ad blockers and other security measures it changes the protocol and its just like dial up!
The only VPN you can trust - is if you absolutely know who & where BOTH endpoints are owned and operated by.
Latest moves by the EU and Brasil against Musk and Durov mean the next move can only be p2p fully distributed networks, protocols like Tor ir Nostr. Service Providers are Single Points of Failure
It all sounds very mysterious and potentially risky. All I want to do is to ensure that if I access my bank accounts online while in a public place, no one will be able to snoop on what I am doing. Will a VPN protect my confidential data online?
It must take a lot of effort for governments to find out the identity of an Internet subscriber, so they don't even try.
FISA court , Patriot act --- One of um says that the alphabet agency can intercept communications / info going in and out of the states -- If I'm in Chicago and DM somebody in Florida , and my VPN bounces the DM thru several countries on 3 continent's , will the men in black be at my door asking to borrow a cup of sugar ? ? ? 😎
I agree with you Rob that while not being perfect VPNs offer many advantages and it's very important for people to know how to use them and what their limits are. So this is important information that you have provided here.
"Aside from recording logs I actually do something more on my servers and that is to set the logs to not record IP addresses so outside of the VPN service I don't even record IP addresses of any other service in the logs "
Sorry, this sentence is really confusing me. So does BraxVPN have any logs or not?
VPN has ZERO LOG. Nothing. Nada. However it is a server so servers log other activities not connected to the VPN. So I sought to minimize even that.
@@robbraxmantech Great, thanks for the clarification Rob.
Educate Folk on the benefits of adding "Next DNS" to their defense folder, and thanks for being a voice crying out in the wilderness to your Brothers and Sisters.
🤜🤛 📖✊💯
Our VPN handles DNS obfuscation already using Pi-Hole
I know that a couple of my Russian y/t channels to buy pass restrictions in Russia,it works for them.
Thank you so much for your content. I have been watching your videos for quit sometime. Would you consider doing a video of start to finish privacy step by step. For instance, show how you would get all the products offered covertly and then how you would set them up with out giving anything away privacy wize. Including changing; your phone number, phone, vpn, ip address, ect. So you can just disappear and truly exercise your 4th admendment rights under the constitution. Even include license plate readers and trackable cars with wifi hotspots.
Most ISP's today have all their clients on a 24 hour, or less DHCP lease. Just disconnecting your modem for a day or two will also invoke a new IP address assignment when it's turned back on.
Very well explained, thank you.
A gullible friend of mine was lead into using a VPN due to the deliberately misleading advertising by a prominent provider. He had no idea of why he was using it other than it made him 'safe'. They are maggots on the arsehole of life.
hi from Brasil