Are you feeling confused after watching this video? Do you find yourself asking "So, if VPNs don't protect my privacy, what should I use instead?"? Well, I've finally made a video answering that exact question: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/qYp2aGuBZIN6tps.html

*stops using VPN* "Sorry, the content provider has not made this video available in your region." *starts using VPN again*

Title: Stop using VPNs. UKposts: "Let's place NordVPN ad here!"

Plot twist: hes just a hacker and hes tired of getting stoped by vpns (this is a joke, I dont care if vps dont stop hackers) Edit 2: this was supposed to be funny. You can stop trying to argue another point in the replies?

Also, any time a service becomes large enough to be publicly recognizable; instantly becomes a target not only for hacking but also for corporate and political infiltration.

I got a VPN ad before watching this.

NordVPN could've just used a VPN to protect themselves from the hacker attack

When reading the comments, a counter-argument can be found for each argument: ''Use this. Do this. Don't use that, it's useless'' and so on. You can read the comments all day trying to find out how it really is, to get what is true and what is not, until you finally realize that no one really fully understands how it is. The more you read, the more you understand that.

Glad some one is telling the truth. The real truth is privacy online has been dead for 10 years. The system was never built for privacy it was built to connect.

Thats it I'm never using the internet.

All I want to do is just watch stuff thats not available in my country.

Thank you man. Having no knowledge of networks and VPNs I still had a gut feeling that VPN providers can monitor your traffic if the decide to, what's to stop them. That was the answer I was looking for. Your video is great and to the point.

I saw this in my feed today, finally, someone who understands that VPN's are NOT protection for privacy but simply an exit point somewhere else in the world and the provider can LOG everything.

Nice try FBI. I still ain’t gonna turn it off Edit: people below can’t comprehend the concept of satirical comedy

Stop using seatbelts for safety... because it might not save you. Yeah, that logic.

Me: searches for vpn youtube: Stop using VPN

That’s it. I’m moving to Montana, starting a potato farm, and building my own ISP. Who’s with me?

Wolfgang: “Don’t use a VPN” UKposts Ad after video: “need a VPN? Get one here.”

You had my heart at LD's theme! Nice take. Appreciate time spent on this. Keep up the passion...

Hello Wolfgang, thank you for sharing your knowledge around VPN's! Do you have any thoughts on Orchid (OXT) crypto based VPN regarding the points that you make in this video?

Stop using bad VPN's would be a better title.

Meanwhile UKposts users in China: "Sure, I'm gonna stop using them right n

@Wolfgang I was looking at getting a VPN to protect against DDoS attacks while gaming on XBOX. What do you recommend for that?

what kind of keyboard do you have & what wall mount do you use also thanks

I disagree with a few points here. I don't think VPNs are a flawed idea. But they're marketed in a way that is just deceptive.

A better title would be “Don’t rely on a VPN for privacy”, more accurate however is less clickbaity

Is torrenting legal Linux ISOs through a "generally trusted" VPN considered safe? What characteristics should one look out for besides no-log policies that pretty much all of them have? What countries are a good idea for them to be based in? Turkey? Is a seedbox a better idea?

definitely diving into your videos. Thank you so much for taking the ti to teach us that are green in the field. Have a great day

"There are minor exceptions" *Proceeds to state very good reasons for using a VPN*

"Stop using vpns" Bruh I literally have to use a vpn to watch youtube

Dude that was the sponser ever. Thank you. cheers my friend & flysafe.

How do I live a more private life? My phone legit has the gps thing near the time come up all the time tracking my location. Some apps I may have given access to my mic! I’m starting to freak out

This video is a little biased. You spend a lot of time telling us about how a VPN is bad and a false sense of security, then at the very end spend like ten seconds telling us that they're good for a handful of circumstances, which are likely the main circumstances that a VPN is used for. Instead of going for a clickbait title it would have been better to approach it as a "when a VPN is needed and when they are not", maybe with a guide on how to set one up yourself.

It's hard to believe that VPN companies aren't tracking and logging users' activity. It would be way too tempting to track users and amass huge volumes of data on people. That's where the real $$$ is. Not the $3/month subscription fee they collect.

I trust my vpn more than I trust my ISP. Plus, it's not Nord throttling my connection to netflix

I am looking for VPN that I can use at work for uploading videos and casual surfing. What will IT dept see when I upload video through VPN?

This is hokum. One VPN service or server being compromised by a hacker does not negate the usefulness and security of most VPNs

VPN's are nice to have when you're on a school network that monitor every site you go to and give you a heavy-handed firewall blocking

Great video. Js curious, how come I have my VPN connected on my cell phone but when I open a mobile app say like to get something to eat that food app knows which restaurant is closest to me? 🤔

Ok this might be a silly question but here it goes… Say I use my own phone personal internet and browse then delete my history but like the next day use a public wifi on my same phones can they see everything in my iPhone including my pictures and internet history despite not browsing using their wifi at the time? I hope this makes sense

Today’s sponsor: “Nord VPN” I would have died if he said that XD

If you want to stop me you'll have to find me first! **disappears into encrypted cyberspace*

Thank you for the information. But bro your style has changed so much compared to now😂

Another valid use case for VPN: livestreamers and social influencers concerned with bad actors (or just whiney script kiddies) from capturing their IP address

Real title: "Don't use VPNs based in the US and don't use VPNs for things that VPNs aren't actually good for."

There's a difference between wanting privacy and wanting anonymity. Anyone who uses a VPN for anonymity is not getting what they paid for, but VPN's are more than proxies. They specifically encapsulate your traffic inside of another protocol (the tunnel) so that it cant be inspected by any intermediary until its unpackaged at terminus.

I feel like I've got the last puzzle piece to see a whole picture about VPNs) Thank you

Does it count if I use Phone Guardian👀 I can't let go of ma boi Max!

I literally got an ipvanish VPN ad right before this.

feel like this video's title is wrong and misrepresented

You use VPN to protect your privacy, i use VPN for visiting website censored by my government. WE'RE NOT THE SAME

Finally someone speaking sense while many other youtubers have commercials and sponsorship from vpn all the time... almost can't see any video related to tech without its sponsored by a vpn or the like Good this video 👍

A better bit of advice would be to state that a VPN isn't a magic wand, but it is a legitimate privacy tool. Make sure that your privacy toolbox contains the right tools, that your tools are of high quality, that you know how to use them properly, that you know what each tool's limitation is, and how to combine your tools to provide adequate privacy coverage. This will vary from person to person, depending on their threat assessment. For Joe Six-pack who just wants to stream or torrent without getting nasty letters from their ISP, pretty much any VPN will do. For journalists living under a hostile dictatorship, they'll need a safe and solid VPN in addition to several other necessary tools and steps. And of course there is everything in between.

I'm only using VPN so I can pirate shit without my ISP telling me I can't do that

IT'S ALWAYS THE UNDERRATED VID THAT'S LEGIT! THANK YOU!

Hey WolfGang, what are your thoughts on Deeper Net Distributed Privet Network ?? Can you make a video on it ??

VPN's are fine for privacy, to be anonymous however use tails/tor etc. Privacy and anonymity are two very different things, you take your threat model into consideration and decide how much work and care you need to put in for whatever you're doing. This is pure clickbait.

Thanks, Wolfgang. Also I'd like to add that hosting your own VPN is a good method of reaching your localhost from anywhere in the world securely (through VPN split-tunneling) at a multi-layer service (bare-metal, VM and cloud) as long as you have ssh and a VPN client running.

Me reading the title: "Stop using VPN's for piracy" *panic* Me reading again: "pRIVacy not pIRacy" *calm*

I have just bought NORD. Has something changed since the video was published? Please give me some advise.

Love your honesty and your concern for other people's privacy🔐. Refreshing to say the least. "Subbed 👍🏽"

Basically: Passwords have been hacked before. So stop using passwords.

Currently there is no way shape or form in the USA for anybody to speak freely without censorship ON EVERY PLATFORM.

Omfg, I love the background music, where can I download it? 🥺

There wasn't anything presented here to deter me from using a VPN. Hopefully, anyone using a VPN understands what it offers and those that don't know what is being offered are probably not being harmed.

I like how "journalist" got lumped together with "drug dealers"

Love the breakdown. What about Getting a VPN for Geo-spoofing reasons alone? lol Are there any other non-VPN options to stream content from the other side of the globe? :)

my often accurate paranoia says: If I were a govt agency or govt employee whose job it was to track people's activity online, specifically people who attempt to hide their activity (meaning they are likely doing something they dont want the govt to see), I would create a vpn service. It would work perfectly, a vpn service run by the govt, disguised as an 'anti establishment' 'anti-govt' service that "keeps your data private", and people who want to hide their activity would voluntarily sign up for this vpn/trap, and would function as a pipeline of data to the govt, specifically from people trying to hide their data from the govt. i see youtube/google as part of the establishment, and if mainstream youtubers with big channels, who get paid by youtube, are advertising nordvpn, that is sketchy to me

You basically only make two arguments, and they are really weak. *Logging* - Sure, your VPN may be logging your traffic. Maybe. One thing is for certain. Your ISP is _definitely_ logging your traffic. So in this situation, a VPN may help, but it certainly won't hurt. VPN companies stake their entire business on their reputation for providing privacy. When that is compromised, their business falls apart. This is a huge incentive for them to actually do a good job here. Yes there are perverse incentives like you mentioned, but those only pay off in the short term. Reputable companies that have been around a while and are based in countries that respect privacy are likely to have good privacy and security practices. *Identification* - You say that as soon as you use the VPN to access something like facebook, it reveals everything else you do from that IP address. This is not true. That IP address is likely shared by many other people so there is far too much noise to distinguish the users. Rolling your own VPN on a VPS does not give you anonymity. That IP address can be directly linked back to you, just like your normal IP.

Appreciate this candid tutorial on VPNs ...I currently live abroad in a controversial country where one should cover their tracks when navigating online...being careful has become an established habit.

Great video apart from the fact that you don't give a solution? How about Tor?

people never consider the fact that i want whoever is spying on me to see the horrible things i say

*Welcome to the comments section! Please read this first:* Q: Who else got a VPN ad? A: Everyone did. The title has 'VPN' in it, so UKposts puts VPN ads on the video Q: The title sucks! It should've been "stop using bad VPNs" or "stop using VPNs for wrong reasons" A: If I said "stop using bad VPNs" people would automatically assume their VPN is good. NordVPN, PIA and PureVPN were all considered "good" at some point. If the title was "stop using VPNs for wrong reasons", people would automatically assume their reason is valid. Q: What if I live in China/Russia/North Korea? A: There are good reasons for using a VPN and this is discussed in the video. Circumventing censorship is one of those reasons. Q: What if I want to torrent or watch porn? A: See previous answer Q: But without a VPN my ISP will be able to snoop on everything I'm doing! A: That's not true. HTTPS and SSL/TLS encrypt full URLs and contents of the websites you visit. Your ISP will still see the domain names, but so would the VPN provider. In some cases, if your ISP is affiliated with the government and you can get in serious trouble by browsing certain websites, it's reasonable to use VPN or Tor. However, for the most part, it's a choice between trusting a big ISP comany that resides in your country and trusting an anonymous nobody on the Internet who would have no accountability for misusing your data. Q: No A: Okay

I used ExpressVPN for a while. I primarily only used it in public wifi areas, at hotels, conferences, etc. My initial concern came from people at tech conferences that I saw actively hacking the routers at the conference centers and just sitting and watching internet traffic. Some conference centers were either using outdated firmware with known vulnerabilities or in some cases setting ridiculously simple administrator passwords. Many people at conferences I have been do just to very blatant network scans as well, just trying to connect directly to shared drives over the network, over-trusting bluetooth devices, etc. A VPN won't protect you from direct attacks like that. I've heard a lot of people trying to use VPNs on public wifi for that reason, to which I always say to make sure you have a personal firewall or detection service on your machine. What I have found useful is having my own cloud account. Because I do a lot of cloud development, I have accounts on multiple cloud providers. I created a "hopping VPN" of my own that just jumps between clouds, services, regions, etc. with ephemeral IP addresses. Still limited range of IPs, but it's at least somewhat helpful. Through use of Terraform and a couple other tools, it's easy to get everything you need set up **FAST**.... but I'm also a software architect. I keep the Docker containers I use up-to-date with security patches, etc, which is part of my day-to-day job anyway. It's easier for me than the general public, but I am trying to think of ways to OSS my solution to help. I know it's only a small layer of protection, but when I'm in a public space I get paranoid about some of the bizarre things places do and restrict. We're in a state right now where privacy is a big concern, but there's also not much we can do about it. Everything has vulnerabilities and holes. I try to explain to corporate clients that even things like firewalls are merely a deterrent and not perfect, security and penetration scans only work for known things, etc. but it's rare people will listen. Many times, even for PCI compliance and other things, people scan once and never scan again nor set up active monitoring/logging for potential violations. Some new, innovative idea is needed - and I haven't seen one and haven't been able to think of one on my own... yet.

question: if my employer is providing the VPN, can they track my location if i use it?

Interesting video so what can I use to hide my IP address from people trying to hack my Instagram?

God no. They know what Netflix shows I watch.

Nord actually got audited to verify their “no logs” claim as legit.

those lights on ceiling dope may i ask where can i get some love em

Is Incognito hidden from VPN or can that get tracked as well?

Thanks for the video! Here is another use case, your ISP throttles your connection based on what you are doing... with a VPN they can't use this technique to throttle your connection because they don't know what you are doing.

Video: "Stop using VPNs" UKposts: *Gives me an ad for a VPN service*

What if a company controls my windows machine updates, could they somehow see my real location if I setup through the router ?

what about ram-based log tracking though? Doesn't that disappear?

that's it, I'm gonna set my PC on fire

The thing about having your password stolen that, sure you might have your whole bank account robbed and lose everything, but you have to remember is that money isn't everything. The thing that matters most in life is having strangers like your comment on the Internet. That's what real happiness is and no amount of money can make up for that.

so how do we protect ourselves, our bank accounts, how to be safe wen hookin onto public wifi overseas or watevs? if no vpn?

Is it illegal to use it for something you pay for (like Netflix to spoof your location for different content)?

Great video. I use expressVPN from Europe to access some of the geolocated content from my US streaming providers. While I think this is a good use case, sending all your traffic through a single point is a bit concerning. The things that people do for HBO!

When you show your viewing audience something on the screen TO READ, perhaps you could possibly flash it even faster so there is absolutely no time to read what you have presented for them TO READ! Thanks.

2:00 I thought the data was encrypted/invisible for the vpns no? like sure maybe they get data when you connect and disconnect but surely not much more than that right?

There's a lot of people in forums online saying that we should use vpn to keep our cctv secure for remote access. Does it really works?

Thanks for making us more aware of dangers of VPN. What would you recommend as an alternative of VPN?

Wolfgang doing his best Varg face in the thumbnail

Hello greetings from Lima, I'm already going crazy with this, could you help me please? what does this mean? Your IP address was reported as an open proxy. And how do I solve it, I changed my mobile and everything started there, my previous instagram was blocked like fb without understanding anything, now I try to open a new one and what my proxy comes out.

What if my internet connection is not secure? Would you recommend using a VPN? :(

I just want to hide my traffic from my ISP. I use MULLVAD VPN to do this, and it does the job very well both on my mobile phone and my home router. I understand it is open source, based in Sweden, and is highly respected in the developer community. I believe it is much better than using one of the fee or cheap paid for VPNs that are closed source?

Me:Gets IPVanish ad here also Me: recognizes im not special because everyone got a vpn ad

Thank you for this!

What's your favorite VPN ? I don't know what to choose between NordVPN and BitDefenderVPN What should I choose?