Is there much privacy advantage to use a vpn/proxy when using https sites?
by linuxuser371038 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6P6C7)
I am privacy conscious mainly for data mining purposes.
Some might say "if you have nothing to hide then why are you concerned what data they mine". There was a nice quote by Snowden in counter to that but I have forgotten it.
I stopped using google years ago in favor of ddg.
I do use youtube daily so does that render the above moot? I am trying to ween myself off yt but it has not been easy. I am motivated to free myself from the yt shackles because I find trending videos which often come up as suggested, simply brain rotting.
As my previous proxy subscription ended I have been left wondering if it offers much advantage anyway if using https sites, which most are nowadays.
I just had the vague idea that using either a proxy or a vpn is 'better for privacy' but didn't have much of an idea of exactly how except it hides your home IP. Does that factor even matter much if you aren't doing anything nefarious?
Since it is only to stop data mining not for anything really high 'threat model' I am wondering what is 'good enough' for my use case.
Any other considerations on what they do? I know vpns encrypt the data but isn't that redundant since https encrypts it anyway?
I prefer the idea of a single proxy than vpn just as there seems no need for thousands of ips and I am thinking I could roll my own proxy with and ssh tunnel and cheap vps as commercial option
Some might say "if you have nothing to hide then why are you concerned what data they mine". There was a nice quote by Snowden in counter to that but I have forgotten it.
I stopped using google years ago in favor of ddg.
I do use youtube daily so does that render the above moot? I am trying to ween myself off yt but it has not been easy. I am motivated to free myself from the yt shackles because I find trending videos which often come up as suggested, simply brain rotting.
As my previous proxy subscription ended I have been left wondering if it offers much advantage anyway if using https sites, which most are nowadays.
I just had the vague idea that using either a proxy or a vpn is 'better for privacy' but didn't have much of an idea of exactly how except it hides your home IP. Does that factor even matter much if you aren't doing anything nefarious?
Since it is only to stop data mining not for anything really high 'threat model' I am wondering what is 'good enough' for my use case.
Any other considerations on what they do? I know vpns encrypt the data but isn't that redundant since https encrypts it anyway?
I prefer the idea of a single proxy than vpn just as there seems no need for thousands of ips and I am thinking I could roll my own proxy with and ssh tunnel and cheap vps as commercial option