It’s Time to Stop Paying for a VPN (Published 2021)
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Many virtual private network services that were meant to protect your web browsing can no longer be trusted. Here are other ways.
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They can do that to a specific degree, yes.

But they shouldn’t be able to sell it to others.

they could of course sell “AnOnYmOuS” data ( that is just identified by 1 specific id, that is just ACCIDENTALLY identifiable to you )

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Well it would still be traceable to my persona then.

Correct :D You won the 1st price!

Yup, all “anonymouse” data collection is not really anonym its of course pseudo anonym because the id is not directly calling out hey its from the pc xyz and from the person test, hoooman. Its still in the backend trackable who and where he did it.

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