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Google has a VPN service now (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 34 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Not really. What if it's your VPN? Mine allows me access to my home network, which is its primary focus, but it also obfuscates what my phone is doing online, and blocks trackers.

(Adguard home and wireguard)

It also lets me use my phone on 4chan... so there's that.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    If you're of the few people on earth to care enough and knows enough to set it's own vpn, sure. but otherwise, NordVPN gonna still sponsor youtubers and lure people into a false sense of privacy.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Strps to set up my own VPN:

    1. Navigate to my router’s configuration page
    2. Select Configure VPN server
    3. Click Generate Certificate button
    4. Download certificate
    5. Enable VPN networking on my device
    6. Import downloaded certificate

    It’s that simple. If you don’t have your own firewall, you can just deploy Tailscale on all devices you want to be able to communicate with each other, which uses Wireguard under the hood.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    As someone who manages a tailscale network at my work...I just want to point out that tailscale is a tiny bit more complicated than just downloading and installing. Not much but...

    That said the ability to automate wireguard connections is wonderful and everyone should check it out.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I thought Nord was one of the ones that doesn't keep activity logs, no?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't have any evidence to the contrary, but in general it's suspicious when a company markets features like that so hard when there's no reliable way an outsider can verify that the claim is accurate (still)

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