@bridonca wrote:
I know I am being simple, but if you do not know what a VPN is, and what it is good for, you do not need one. Ignorance is bliss. Best I can tell you is to assume you are being spied upon, and modify your behavior accordingly. Most spying is not sinister, you just need to be aware it is happening.
If you actually do have something to hide, you are going to have to do some research.
Ignorance is bliss, but that's still no excuse to choose to remain ignorant, I don't agree being watched or spied on should be accepted as normal - that's how people in China are, they just accept it as a fact of life that they have no rights at all, and to just be happy when the government leaves you alone.
Everyone should be aware and protect and support worldwide privace movements, most don't value it till they lose it. The importance or privacy not about actually having something to hide, it's awareness about our Rights and Freedoms, it's about supporting right versus wrong. Spying on others is wrong, doesn't matter who does the spying - government, pigs, parents, jealous boyfriend, etc. Doesn't matter how spying is justified - national security, greater good, crime prevention, etc. The fact remains that spying depends upon not asking permission to do something that others may not want done to them, that alone makes spying wrong.
As for VPNs, lots of VPNs are easy to download and easy to use and free, this is because good ethical privacy companies want to help people protect their privacy for free and help society against spying for free - companies like TunnelBear, OpenVPN, ProtonVPN, are all free and easy to use on any device so there really no excuse not to proect your privacy anymore.
That goes for all your phone/email communications too, there's no reason at all anymore to not be safe, just like there's really no reason anyone to not lock your doors or not wear your seatbelt - it's just the smarter thing to do, instead of allowing being a victim of spying to be normalized in our society. Just like how paying income tax is normalized now and most people don't know that there was a time when income tax didn't exist, evil depends on ignorance to thrive.
Free privacy apps like TutanotaMail, ProtonMail, Signal Private Messenger, OpenVPN, ProtonVPN, TunnelBear, etc - are all free because they are doing their part to support privacy movements worldwide, and we should all do our part too, instead of letting bad companies like facebook and google etc take over the world.
