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Online Safety and Virtual Private Networks [VPNs]

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[Educational purposes only]

I. What is a VPN?

A VPN stands for Virtual Private Network.

II. What does a VPN do?

It hides your Internet Provider [IP] address and encrypts your internet traffic.

In plain, it makes it harder for anyone including your internet provider, apps, or government to see what you are doing online. [think China or North Korean citizens accessing websites that their governments have banned]

III. Without your data they lose:

Ad revenue, tracking power, censorship control. They cannot watch what they cannot see.

IV. what could a VPN be used for?

Access blocked websites, bypass regional content restrictions, hide from mass surveillance, use public wi-fi without getting tracked...

V. How could you use a VPN?

First download a trusted VPN [Proton, Mullvad, etc...]

Connect to a server [ideally outside your own country]

Browse like you are nobodies business, because it is of the opinion that it is nobodies business.

[Educational purposes only]

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