It's a really thorough and good video, but he does miss the usage of needing virtual networking between devices that aren't actually directly connected. I like this video

twovests OP wrote on November 18, 2019 at 3:54 PM (edited on November 18, 2019 at 3:54 PM)

#8,294

EDIT: A TLDR of the video:

VPNs are useful for:

Appearing to be from a different country to get past content restrictions (piracy!)
To get past firewalls/filters (e.g. in China)
To stop your ISP or people on your network from seeing and monetizing your DNS queries
To hide your public IP address from sites you connect to
To protect your data on HTTP / non-SSL sites from your device to the proxy
(Not mentioned in the video) for creating a virtual network, useful in some work situations

VPNs don't actually help much with protecting the contents you send over the web (these are usually encrypted), i.e.

Bank passwords and data
Stopping advertisers from tracking you (there's a lot of stuff other than your IP)
Making you anonymous

Tom Scott video on VPNs, very thorough explanation of when actually to and when not to use a VPN for privacy reason

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twovests OP wrote on November 18, 2019 at 3:54 PM (edited on November 18, 2019 at 3:54 PM)