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Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous (hackaday.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Damn... I guess the next idea is going offline for good

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[–] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

But VPNs aren't supposed to make you anonymous.
They secure your data while in transit to/from the exit node. Maybe that's your job so you can access their LAN. Or it's a public VPN that secures your dada from the local WiFi or ISP you're directly connected to. That's all it's built for.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    And what do you thing HTTPS does exactly? Whe the web was HTTP sure VPN's had a point as people on public wifi could sniff your trafic. Now they can't.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    It only encrypts the data within the HTTPS packet. But where that packet is going is still transparent.

    It also doesn't do anything for non web traffic. Email through SMTP or IMAP, FTP, lots of things don't use HTTP at all.

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