[freeflight]

There is a pretty decent chance some VPN providers are actually intelligence service, or other bad actor, honey pots.

It's part of VPN that most users these days don't even understand, as VPN providers are heavily advertised on the claim of improving privacy.

When in reality the VPN only shifts the party you have to trust from one to another, but the problem still remains the same.

[DiscourseFan]

I myself cannot encrypt my internet traffic or scramble it through a variety of IP addresses around the world. You're right, we should all be using TOR if we really want to be extra-secure, but TOR simply is too slow for most general usages.

[bauruine]

When did you last try Tor? The DDoS [0] has ended and it's now pretty fast again. I'm watching a 4k youtube video over Tor right now. Also the next version implements traffic splitting [1] which should improve performance even more.

[0]: https://status.torproject.org/issues/2022-06-09-network-ddos...

[0]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/blob/main/p...

[1827163]

I doubt if any VPN is truly secure, even ones that truly don't keep logs, because of the activities of Team Cymru and other actors as well. NSA and GCHQ have been known to trace through VPNs, as far back as 2013 in the Snowden leaks.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg84yy/data-brokers-netflow-...

As one of the original posters mentioned, the Internet itself, being so centralized, is the problem. We need a new network.