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VPN explained: A privacy primer -- with robots and race cars

2017-04-03
these days it could be hard to find a little privacy online your every move is tracked and sold by advertisers even the company that you pay to give you Internet service can sell your web browsing history not to mention there's the threat of hackers spying on you so if you're tired of feeling like strangers are watching your every move you might be interested in VPN it stands for virtual private network and it routes all of your online activity through an encrypted server so it can't be spied on by others if the Internet is an information superhighway let's say you're this car on the road and this big guy is the company that gives you the Internet that could be free Wi-Fi at the airport or the internet service you pay for at home the internet provider watches over and tracks where everyone is going but when you use a VPN you're travelling through a secret portal your connection may be a little slower but the Beast cannot see your destination it can only see that you're in a VPN and I should mention you will not be able to do everything through a VPN Netflix is known to block it someone without a VPN leaves a record of every site they've been to the apps they use what devices they own and what time of day they visited but with a VPN awesome a concede is that the person has VPN now if you use a VPN you need to be careful which one you choose VPN companies can see all your secrets so you need to find one that you can trust a cheap service may not deliver on the security they promise and turn around and sell your information behind your back we're all looking for a little more security in our lives but when it comes to using a VPN it matters to find the right one
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