VPN app recommendation

[rockits]

Agreed. I understand most of the VPN providers are mainly owned by half a dozen entities only, many of them Chinese. It is a way they can filter all that traffic/data via their servers/networks to use/monetize that important data.

You have no idea really where your data is going and how it got there.

Question is......do you trust your VPN providers Servers/network more than you trust your standard ISP? Probably not. I don't use a VPN per se all the time. Just when required for certain tasks. You Tube premium family in Turkey is a lot more cost effective than buying in the UK!

In summary I don't trust any of them as they are all mainly just as bad as each other.

 

[CatmanV2]

Never checked into the ownership but given that the vast majority of your internet traffic is encrypted with TLS (good enough for your bank) then that's pretty good.

Obviously if you're buying something (probably) you're going to volunteer your details (damned hard to pay and get delivery otherwise)

Totally get it around getting a better deal around geo-ip hiding. Mrs C uses it to watch footy that's not available in the UK due to the EFL. Personally I've never tried to get cheaper tickets, but I have heard it done.

C

 

[rockits]

The weird thing some don't often realise is when apps are encrypted but the app dev might have encrypted it with their encryption that they have the decrypt for. I understand Amazon do this but it is hard to know for sure.
Amazon have just announced they will be monetising/selling their pretty expansive mesh network now for all sorts of uses. Great little idea they had there really. Amazon Alexa's and Ring door bells aplenty everywhere all connecting together to get huge swathes of devices close by networked together for one heck of a large global mesh network.

 

[John Ed]

Because it enables you to book flights from anywhere to anywhere and pay anywhere ,where as in UK that's impossible using a UK IP address

Yep, exactly this reason for original request.

I also suspect, at risk of sounding like I wear a tin foil hat, that priced get raised on follow up searches for flights etc

 

[midlifecrisis]

Yep, exactly this reason for original request.

I also suspect, at risk of sounding like I wear a tin foil hat, that priced get raised on follow up searches for flights etc

easyJet got done for that many years ago. They'd give you a cheap price for a flight, you'd compare alternative providers then come back and the price has risen. Apparently they were looking at your cookies then alter the price accordingly.
Not sure if they can do it now.

 

[lozcb]

Yep, exactly this reason for original request.

I also suspect, at risk of sounding like I wear a tin foil hat, that priced get raised on follow up searches for flights etc

its true mate a complete con , VPN gets you around that , your able to book flights without them having a UK start of Journey , at local price money , booking a flight here from say Kampala/Entebbe to Nairobi is extortionate compared to walking into an office in down town Kampala ............its been allowed to continue far too long .......VPN,s are a godsend if your money conscious .I find now we have trained an awful lot of young grads on how to spend other peoples money un wisely ...............I see it every day with the UN and so called NGO do gooders

 

[zagatoes30]

The only thing I use a VPN for is dodging geo-location stuff, allows me to watch UK streaming services from a UK location rather than being blocked from my Ireland location although I do find BBC iPlayer often seems to block certain VPN locations too.