• Torty@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The DNS resolution, assuming you’re just using your ISP’s DNS authority servers, is still very much known to your ISP.

    They can still identify my traffic, where I’m going, what I’m browsing, etc.

    With a VPN that you can trust, that emphasizes user privacy, that doesn’t store PII, that doesn’t comply with local law enforcement short of being issued a warrant, all my ISP sees is I keep routing encrypted web traffic to an IP that they can identify is a machine somewhere in the Netherlands.

    And besides that they know absolutely fuck all.

    Without the VPN they can identify the IPs I make https requests to belong to beehaw, belong to imgur, belong to Netflix, belong to some torrenting site, etc etc.