If you are a newbie to the tech world love using internet and would like to stay safe
while doing so you must know what VPN is and why you might need it.
But let's not rush things.
First things first, what is a VPN VPN?
A virtual private network is a software that changes your IP address, and encrypts all
of your internet traffic.
This improves online privacy security, and helps users to bypass online censorship imposed
by the government icps or any other organization or person blocking websites, the internet
is not safe by default.
hackers are always looking for ways to get into your system and steal your money.
This is in addition to governments spying on their citizens and icps or Internet Service
Providers selling your browsing data to marketers.
When you turn on a VPN virtual private network on your computer, smartphone or tablet.
It protects your data by putting everything you do online through a tunnel.
And when you do things online using a VPN tunnel, nobody can see what you're doing,
which gives you an extra layer of security.
A VPN tunnel enhances your privacy by encrypting data.
In other words, converting it into a code and making it unreadable for snoopers.
Now let's talk about the benefits of using a VPN.
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And let's proceed using a VPN service will give its users and you potentially several
Whitehill benefits, and these are as follows VPN prevents your internet provider ICP from
seeing what you do on the internet.
In addition to this, websites can see either your real IP address or who your ICP is.
All they can see is the IP address of the VPN server, which is usually shared among
many VPN users to further protect each individual unlike icpc, though, reputable VPN providers
do not store your personal data and your logs for further retrieval.
Indeed, good VPN providers go even a step further and delete all metadata connection
logs, which might be indirectly linking customers to their activity on the internet.
The next benefit VPN provide is that they defeat censorship by connecting to a VPN you
can access blocked websites simply connecting to a VPN server located somewhere where these
websites are not censored.
The next benefit is that a VPN allows you to access streaming services such as Netflix,
for example, by connecting to a VPN server somewhere in the United States, you can get
an access to the Netflix libraries for us citizens, only the American version of the
service has more TV shows and movies than any other country's Netflix catalog.
Or if you connect to a VPN server located somewhere in the United Kingdom.
You can watch BBC I player for free from abroad.
The next benefit of VPN provides is that it protects you from hackers.
Now, how do you know that a public Wi Fi in your favorite local coffee shop is safe?
The answer is you don't This goes for free public verifies everywhere you don't know
who might be using this same public Wi Fi so felon don't take any chances.
Using a VPN will protect you because your data is securely encrypted.
The next benefit of VPN provides is that it protects you when p2p torrenting when you
use a VPN for torrenting curial IP address is shielded from peers downloading the same
torrents.
It also hides the content of what you download from your ICP, and is handy for accessing
blocked websites.
Now tell me which of these benefits appealed to you the most?
Would you rather use VPN to access Netflix libraries from another country?
Or would you rather stay safe online while using public Wi Fi?
So what would be your primary goal of using a VPN?
Let me know in the comments.
I would really love to learn your opinion.
So you might be wondering with all these benefits, are we piensa legal?
Well, we'd be as are legal in most countries.
However, there are countries where VPN services are either restricted or severely regulated
such as China, Iran, Russia and some other countries, you might want to check them out
before you go traveling.
And you can find the list on the web.
Now some FAQs you might also be interested in include, will VPN slow down my internet
connection.
Well, a VPN app routes your data to a VPN server which then spans processing power to
encrypt or decrypt your data before processing it and sending it further so it's inevitable
that it will slow down your That connection, at least a little bit.
The two biggest factors of how much this beat will be decreased is where that we've been
server is located and how loaded it is.
If you can add a VPN server that is located somewhere near to yourself, and that is not
overloaded, you will lose a maximum of 10% of your internet speed.
However, the best and the fastest VPN providers invest heavily in high speed servers, so you
won't have to deal with slow internet connection.
The next commonly asked question is that can I use the same VPN on all of my devices?
Don't be greedy.
The short answer is yes.
Every VPN provider allows you to install its software on as many devices as you want.
However, some VPN providers limit the number of devices that you connect to the same account
on VPN.
The next commonly asked question is, Can I get a free VPN?
Don't be embarrassed.
We all like free stuff?
And the short answer is yes.
But there are now at least a couple of free VPN services that are actually quite good.
However, they are limited in their features compared to premium VPN.
So the next very important question is, does a VPN make me safe?
And the short answer is yes and no.
The long answer is VPN will make you safe from public Wi Fi hackers, your ICP mass government
civilians, commercial Wi Fi operators who sell your browsing habits for profit, copyright
holders, advertising and analytics companies who store your data to target you with ads,
and so on.
if all of this sounds like something you could make a good use of Make sure to go and check
out some of the trusted VPN providers I have found on the web best speeds, best lock policy
best performance and extremely user friendly so even if you're a newbie in using a VPN,
you will have no issues using it now let me know in the comments if you have any questions
related to how to use a VPN thank you for more hacks on internet security and keep yourself
safe online citizen bye
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