Privacy is dead
If you work on the internet, you will likely see at least one VPN advertisement. All those advertisements will tell you that your privacy is not safe without hiding your IP address and they will protect your privacy.
The ad above makes success anxiety for watchers, I’m sure a lot of men will purchase the service to hide their only-fans subscription from someone like the Mom in the video.
But the question is will that work?
Unfortunately, the answer is an absolute NO.
Back to the year 2018, when Zuckerberg answered the question “what information Facebook collects from its users.” I think the shadow line voice of Zucker must be like “are you foolishly, everything, of course, everything.”
“Are you a fool or nuts? we collect everything and yes I know you go that site has a Yellow and Black logo.”
It’s not that simple to go invisible online by just using a VPN service. Even if the VPN service doesn’t log your IP( I never believe that ) the data center may do so, or the ISP will do so, why? because the data is valuable in those days.
Businesses need those data to make you a profile and know what you want and like so they can sell you something or sell you to someone else.
If you don’t trust this, just simply just to connect a VPN service and see if the targeted ad will let you go freely.
But why everyone is talking about privacy?
Because privacy is a great wall in 21 century for businesses, big companies use privacy as a tool like political correctness, to set obstacles to startups. “If you want to play the game, then you need to follow my rules.”
What you can do? don’t panic about your privacy, cause no one has it on the internet. but you can still do the following things to make sure you are on the safe side.
Using HTTPS
HTTPS protocol will encrypt the data transmission between you and the server, which means even if someone captured the packets(which very likely happens) they cannot decrypt them quickly.
Most of the major sites has been updated to support HTTPS, however, there is still a lot of site running by small companies or personal sites using the unsecured HTTP protocol, you should avoid using them, at least do not submit sensations information on that sites.
Using open-source software
Open-source software means the source code is public and all the developers can review the codes, so it’s unlikely to have any malicious codes inside.
Otherwise, choosing the big companies’ apps is also a wise idea, this doesn’t mean the big companies will respect your privacy, it is just because they will maintain their reputation so they will unlikely to overplay your data.