Brazilian here. After this Elon Musk battle with the Supreme Court, i woke for the privacy problem. I am taking several measures to protect myself and your channel has been a great help! Thank you very much! I am learning a lot!
While VPN's are great for hiding location, there some drawbacks to consider. 1. Slows down the connection speed and increases latency. 2. Funnels all your traffic through a single point 3. 99% of sites are already HTTPS/TLS encrypted). 4. Costs extra money.
Thanks for this I must admit I didn't have a clue before I watched this, and. now I'm going to have to find out what sites and apps can give my location.
@@BillAnt I would argue that with modern throughputs speed the introduction of a VPN in the route is less of an issue than it used to be. I have tested my various connection points with and without VPNs and I can comfortably saturate any of them with regards to speed even while connected through a VPN. The latency could go up somewhat though, so in some cases (mainly gaming related for regular users) it could have a very slight detrimental effect on your experience.
@@DrBovdin - I agree speeds are ok especially with WireGuard, but there's no way around latency when you have a VPN (aka Men-In-The-Middle). Every millisecond ads up while fetching the elements of web-pages and of course for gaming. Pros and cons. I just don't like the idea of fueling all my traffic through a single choke point.
*I have a one single rule when it comes to any VPN, if any of them advertise (No Logs) but when you go to there terms and conditions and they have tons of reason they collect data it’s than it’s an instant no!. Tons of VPNs do this, I highly recommend to always read the terms and conditions always!!!*
@officialnotesonlifepodcast Actually, read the agreement if you use micro soft, just don't blindly accept it. Any security you thought you had with a vpn is lost anyway by merely accepting the terms of the micro soft license.
Why should you trust that the terms and conditions are truthful, complete and accurate? Who actually checks that they are doing what they say they are or are not doing?
Isn’t it amazing how the world is completely controlled by .01 percent of psychopaths who have been born into the role of controlling the masses by any means imaginable! If you don’t have a problem and barely surviving you’re probably not that concerned but when you are shunned by society and deemed mental illness it’s hard not to be pissed off.. anyone who knows the truth is automatically a mental case
@@W4rriorOfLightthey just threatening other than a small group that will be the ones who get whipped across their back but financially.. we all slaves to the “masters” like it or not
India has done something similar (require any VPN operating in the country to provide logs). As a result, it's hard to find a commercial VPN that lets you choose an Indian endpoint. I get around it using TailScale (and friends in India). No idea why though, as it prevents people outside India from pretending to be in India, but doesn't prevent people in India from pretending they're outside India!
I lived in China ten years ago and used a VPN to get through "the Great Firewall". It worked, but not for long. The Central Government put so many resources into hunting down and shutting down the ports that the most you could count on was a few days. (Sometimes, a few hours.) After that, you had to change servers and connection protocols. I got good at it and was generally able to get through. But, it was a hassle. My understanding this that it is far harder to do this in the PRC today. Whether Brazil is willing to go this far remains to be seen. Then again, I was using my VPN mostly to access RUclips, Netflix, etc.. A lot of these countries have their own local or regional equivalents. (Ex. No one in China pays to stream movies.) So, in the end Brazilians may not care enough to try to access Twitter. A lot of the country is too poor to afford a VPN service. Among the others who can, they generally use whatever works for staying in touch with other Brazilians. If this only damages some of Twitter's services, it may be enough for most Brazilians to dump Twitter.
I worked in China and SE Asia about ten years and had a similar experience as you. In the beginning I used Express VPN. I quit working three years ago and spent the last 18 months in the US. I went to China two months ago to meet friends and from Nanning to Beijing express VPN did not work. I ended up just using my Verizon data which is not fast but works well. I was afraid I would have a monster phone bill but I did not. I didn't take time to see what the international service cost was. I am a full time crypto miner and have 80 Deeper Connect Mini in the US, which is a Decentralized VPN, it is a device not an app. Also have a few in Bangkok where I live. You buy the device and there are no other cost, plus they earn about five bucks a month.
@@BuceGar My VPN had onion server options, but they didn't always work well. I've been told that the Central Government has been blocking TOR since 2010. I'd believe it. The fact is that 10 years ago, they were pretty damned good at blocking all protocols. Today, my friends there tell me things are much worse.
I came here after Google recommend me this channel😂😂😂. Google knows my interest that I am interested in hiding my privacy. Google says OK I have collected all your data now you can hide your privacy.😂😂😂
Yup! Always trust Google cuz they have your interest in mind. Elon Musk honestly deserves a Nobel Prize for whatever category they can dream up. Let’s just say freedom. Obama got one just for setting foot in the White House.
My main reason to use a VPN is to block ads. Services like Twitch force ads on you based on your geo location, determined by your IP. If you come from a rich country with a rather common language, a lot of companies run ads on platforms like Twitch. One example is German (I'm originally from Germany, living in Switzerland). If I'm connected to a German ISP, Twitch runs ads 2-3 times per hour with ads as long as 3 minutes. This is annoying to say the least. If I switch to a Swiss ISP, ads already go down to maybe 1-2 ads per day, usually 30 seconds in length. If I connect to a tiny country (e.g. Luxembourg) or a poor country (Albania), I see an 10 second ad maybe once every 2 months. It's sad, that the Internet became with global ad platform. But there are ways around it, for the moment.
The reason people in 'rich' (enriched) countries get more ads than people in 'poor' (impoverished) countries is mainly because many of the impoverished countries either are not historically capitalist or have been historically socialist and therefore the hunger to consume anything and everything to fill the void is less present. Its not just about them not having as much money to spend on things. It is literally also that they don't want to.
I don't particularly prefer to use a VPN because it masks my location. I'm more looking for the encryption of my internet traffic so that my ISP, for instance, doesn't know what I'm doing at any point in time.
That lead me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Let's say you're planning to do something most people would see as horrific, but you want to maintain anonymity. If I were running an ISP, I'd want to avoid having customers using my hardware in that way. Encryption seems to go against an ISP's ability to safeguard from liability.
@@aradesh1134 If someone is planning to do something horrific and they use a public roadway to carry out that horrific act, does that make the local, state, or federal government liable because they use that roadway In the process of carrying out that horrific deed? No. Do we possibly know what everyone is doing on all those public roadways? No. Do we have some lawmakers that want to know and want laws in place to be able to track each one of us as we travel in our vehicles up and down public roadways? Yes. What are people's concerns for why they are against the government knowing those kinds of things? Those chief concerns are privacy. Don't you think this same analogy could be applied to people using the internet? Blaming the ISP for a potentially unlawful activity that one or more of its users might carry out using its service would be equivocal to holding the owner of a roadway responsible for a driver carrying out a crime and using said roadway in the process. It's an absurd notion, I think.
@@UntakenNick sadly, they do care what we do on the internet in varying degrees. Why do these companies choose to limit or block certain kinds of traffic that flows on their service? If all they cared about was making a profit, then they wouldn't do that kind of thing.
First, does the VPN actually own its network and servers? Second, many VPN companies claim to be located in a non-Five Eyes nation, but this is a front. I personally knocked on the door a VPN company, and no VPN company was there. A Google Map search can find this. Third, many VPN companies use virtual servers with virtual IPs to save cost. They claim you're connecting to a specific nation, but don't be surprised if your data is being routed to an entirely different location. In one instance, while in the USA and connecting to a nearby USA server, my data was being routed to Japan with huge delays!
This is why I have been using your VPN for almost two years Rob!!!! I also have your email and phone services. I cannot thank you enough for doing what you do Sir!
In Australia the government has installed servers to log all metadata coming in and out of Australian data centres. Rob, does your VPN service have servers in Australia and if so I presume the Aust government is logging all metadata going in and out of them (which we can manage when we know that is going on)?
As someone who is an expat and lives outside of the US. All of my banks and credit cards are able to tell what region or city I am in around the world. For example, When I was in Manila, capital one even with my Express VPN turned on and set to NJ server, was able to tell what city and country I was in. I tried Nord VPN and every other VPN I was able to find. The reason this was such a issue was all these banks even with a VPN on, and would know my location and lock my account from access to "protect my account". Which is fine, I want they to safe guard my account. But VPNs do NOT hide you location and traffic like people think they do Edit: Expert was Expat.
Not exactly correct. VPN hides the location (your address) and doesn't expose it. But bank apps use your GPS/wifi to validate it. Mocking GPS location helped me to trick the system. VPN does it job and is not responsible for data that your device sends. If it sends your GPS location, VPN service can't do much about it
I know it was a torture for you. In short, if you believe in certain line of the internet connection, be paranoid, you will over come your weakness and know how to deal with your Banks who are just wants to show you how Smart 🤓 are the stupid Banking sectors. 😊😊
@@pl8101 Did you smack your head on a door before you sat down to type this? I mean we all make typos. but your grammar is English as a 4th language level grammar.
Cookies let the site admin know who you are... vpn... or not.... ... no cookies... ???... well then... you get the text or phone verification requests... then "they" know who you are...
I used your IP-Check tool to test my IP connection on (1) Comcast, no VPN, (2) Using a private VPN that is served out of a data center I control, and (3) Proton VPM. In all three cases, your tool says I am NOT using a VPN. Clearly, my VPNs are not very private. I would love to see a more in depth discussion of why this might be the case.
@@angelmarauder5647 I am well aware of Windows' tendency to enforce split tunneling and keep their telemetry connections open directly to their servers. There are ways to bypass that, but you have to dig into the registry, and tweak a few settings that can only be reached with an administrator powershell. I spent some long hours fighting that battle a few years ago. I don't imagine it has gotten better since. But that is precisely WHY I don't use Windows (except when I must, for an unenlightened customer). So, no, this test I referenced was on a Mac, which has generally been better behaved. But clearly, it would appear that Apple has implemented some of Microsoft's bad ideas. It is increasingly becoming the case that if you want to keep things private, you simply MUST be on Linux. Neither MacOS nor Windows (10 or 11) can be trusted.
@@angelmarauder5647 Want to know what the meaning of futile is.... try to completely get rid of Defender ... and I mean completely. I run 11 as a virtual machine and I do not need any of that shit . I had to go thru hell and back, registry tweaks, host files to get it to stop with it's bullshit and warnings. even to this day I still have Antimalware core and service executable hanging out in my task manager
You may have misunderstood what a VPN does. A private PVN is indistinguishable from traffic originating on that server. If you control the private VPN, unless hundreds of other users are also using your private VPN, nobody will be able to detect that it is indeed a VPN.
@@angelmarauder5647 That's just dumb, the OS does not control whether you use a VPN, and if you do the OS cannot access the traffic on that VPN. The connection to the VPN is outside the OS's control. Again, an OS cannot "bypass" VPN services - with the exception of "system updates" and that sort of connection, which is non-consequential if your concern is protecting the privacy of your network communication.
On YT if you use any country VPN server you will get the adverts of that country in their language and any censorship regarding Copyright of music. If you access Amazon through a VPN it will show your enquiry from the VPN country you are using and give you warnings as to delivery options to that country, good tests to show your VPN is working.
Two things occur to me re VPN. Always assume that you are being overheard everywhere always. If you do not wish to have overheard what you are saying do not use any electronic media and do not be anywhere near any other electronic device. This is why such conversations in the films are held in secure gardens whilst walking around! I was also going to suggest using a pager but that now seems somewhat problematic too😂
I worked for an ISP in the 90’s. The CEO said users/subscribers and even employees should just assume that “someone is always watching like any other public space. The internet is not private, and encryption might not be a long-term reliable solution.” With the tech as it is today that statement is probably truer now than it was then.
This is such a top tier explanation. Very good examples to help folks follow along. Never forget that folks are always working to protect better (and attack better) so always try to update your knowledge on what you are using. This goes for not just vpns, but os, software, networks, etc. Thanks for the explanations.
13 years in devops, and over 20 years in dev/IT. this is literally the first time i heard the term "VPN Insiders". Just a little note Rob: If a company/service/agency are using a real good security system they should be able to filter "Source" and "Origin" without guessing. That way...you cant "cheat" the destination. In fact, most of those company/service/agency "encourage" that the first line of defense would be more open than the basic generic servers. Why? To be able to collect as much data they can and... spy.
The problem is the ACCESSIBILITY, I am in China, if I use a router VPN many Chinese APP stop to function because they cannot access outside locations. So if I want to go to blocked websites than I will switch it on.
Rob, the Brazil government could see who is sending traffic to a VPN (without knowing, yet, that it is a VPN), by seeing that, aside from an initial DNS lookup by the user (for the client to connect to the VPN), no other DNS lookups have been requested by the user. And yet, lots of data passing between the user and the ISP. Or am I mistaken? I do not know the laws in Brazil. But when they outlaw X, and they have no freedom of speech, then I would imagine that the Brazil police might be ordered to round up anyone using a VPN service, or to break in to people's homes who are suspected of using a VPN service. Thus, if my first paragraph is correct, the citizens of Brazil might get their doors kicked in if they have only 1 DNS lookup, followed by streams and streams of encrypted data, 100% of which is going to a single IP address in a foreign country. And it is only a matter of time before the Brazil authorities identify who owns the target IP address. ----- Logs: Courts can order a VPN service provider to keep logs, and also issue a gag order, not allowing the VPN service provider to reveal the court order for them to keep logs. ----- I see VPN services as glorified proxy servers, that are highly attractive to governments. There are legitimate uses for VPN services. But I would never trust one where my freedom would be at stake, and be at the whim of an anonymous VPN employee handing over my data to the authorities.
"Courts can order a VPN service provider to (...)" Brazil has no jurisdiction in the US while Israel would certainly be given any information, they demand on behalf of national security - it is even likely that the drama is a ruse to have citizens of Brazil to migrate their data into the US thus having leverage over a BRICS member. Understanding the geopolitics of telecommunication is a factor: Chinese companies won't likely sell data to the US and vice versa when in a state of Cold War - that is the position of the consumer wherever they have residency - hence the popularity of Swiss bank accounts in the past and British Commonwealth oversea trusts that can't be forced to comply with British law.
@@triplemotor It's obvious that he understands exactly why you wrote that. He was very kind in that his comment didn't assume that your problem is a deficiency in grey matter.
Excellent information about the realities of VPN use. Obviously, they really are a useful part of our 'security layer'. As a seperate topic I visited the 'Geo' website. It showed that I could be located by 'wireless' data. Ouch. I realized I needed to switch off 'Geolocation' from my browser. Embarrasing, not a major issue for me. However, it was an excellent reminder about us needing to be careful about how we use the 'internet' as regards privacy with web browsers. Thanks for all your work. It really is appreciated. :)
Any VPN usage can be detected by deep packet inspection. In China, any VPN connection usually lasts less than a day, then it gets blocked. Exception: users of foreign data plans, Wifi in top hotels.
If you’re behind a web proxy server, it will appear as multiple hosts are using the same IP address too. Something else to consider is most employer provided mobile devices (computers, smart phones) use a vpn to connect to the company’s network to access resources.
few people know that a considerable chunk of that market-including three of the six most popular VPNs-is quietly operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to that country’s national security state, including the elite Unit 8200 and Duvdevan Units of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). They in turn cooperate with many state and private actors.
Thanks for making this video, it was certainly educational! Also, I learned a new threat to avoid, namely fingerprinting. Now, your site gets that wrong too ;) Love your work, and it´s very helpful. I will consider your services upon renewal.
Latest moves by the EU and Brasil against Musk and Durov mean the next move can only be p2p fully distributed networks, protocols like Tor ir Nostr. Service Providers are Single Points of Failure
Unfortunately too many Tor endpoints are honeypots, and because Tor switches endpoints so often, even having 1% of the nodes compromised means your traffic will be discovered.
@@KristopherNoronha Ideally, we would end up having a decent percentage of the population realise the importance of privacy. So much so that buying your own open source router at home will become relatively frequent, and each of those routers has a single server facing the Internet, a Tor server. All the rest behind the NAT. With a few million nodes, it will not be so easy to trace. For this to work, that device must be like buying a mobile today, or a tv, no nerdiness required. Privacy is a social problem. Being a nerd lone wolf with "perfect" privacy only goes so far, it kind of puts a target on your back. But even just 1 out of 100 normies onboard privacy, things change greatly.
And you think Elmo Musk is fighter for freedom or what? When he is a friend Putin, with Putin's little bich Trump? With Holocaust deniers? With Naredra Módí, with Erdogan, who block all their political opponents? Whenever any dictator asks him to block any opponent of any dictator, he bows, spreads his legs, and does as hes told by the dictators.
@@markylon Use AWS or Linode and load up an ubuntu server instance with low hardware requirements so it is cheap. Then you can connect to it via VPN connection. Only you are using the VPN so it wont be flagged as one. You can change your IP or move your instance to another region of the world with a few mouse clicks.
@@markylon some people prefer to deploy Wireguard protocol on a VPS and create their own VPN service rather than subscribing to a commercial VPN Providers. I believe you must choose the hosting service provider carefully or it’s just as useless as average commercial VPN.
Apart from the interruption of dropping why would this be a privacy concern? If the VPN drops nothing has any internet connection so browsers won't be showing your IP address to anyone because they can't connect to the internet. That's what autokill is for. The login app of the VPN is not a concern since they already know your IP.
@@linsqopiring6816 what happens is nordVpn suddenly just isn't on and the kill switch hasn't killed anything. So im on the internet with no vpn, totally exposed. I've had it happen to me repeatedly on multiple macbooks. Complete garbage product. Im going to move to proton Vpn or brave vpn.
Any serious VPN product (at least, in the US) can be expected to be compromised by intelligence or the gov't with a Patriot Act legal authority. These include a non-disclosure requirement that forbids recipients from discussing the letter's contents and instructions with anyone other than an attorney. A similar approach is used for patents that are perceived to be a "threat to national security" which could mean anything. Privacy doesn't really exist, but there are things you can do on your own, and that's where the average person loses out as it's not easy. And so here we are.
Great explanation. The point where guests in your network can expose your identity is creepy. I have no router with VPN. I may download a third party firmware.But thats also risky in a way.
digital awareness is so less in all of us who foolishly believe assume that they are educated ones and feeling living dignified life is so stupid. I got stuck into legal battle with real estate mafias who later got the digital help then got in to my computer and mobile and loot some cryptos there and made privacy in to hell. In this connection I even tried seekin help with my basic rights protecting officials, unfortunately it didn't work. In digital age common citizen is so helpless he simply doesn't know whats going on with him and perpetrators will be looking n controlling at his private life like mean gods . However, what really happening in case of Elon Musk and Brazil SC is unknown. As we have seen Elon's intentions and directions aren't mostly that straight and people friendly. As an entrepreneur we have seen Jack Ma's approach has clarity, straight and people friendly. The mumbling Musk sounds fishy many a times. And Brazil is known for its patriotism 'be Brazilian and Buy Brazilian."
Rob, two things you did not mention, and they are BIG: 1) any VPN choice boils down to one factor, do you TRUST that VPN to be as they represent themselves? How many "honey pots" are there out there? If I were a three-letter intel agency, I would invest a lot of resources into creating a front. How much would it cost to have a bad actor pretending to be a good actor? Rob, YOU could be an intel-agent, making six-figures every single month to PRETEND to be a good guy. Rob, you could talk forever and never be able to provide PROOF that you are not a front for a honey pot. If anyone buys YOUR VPN service, they are doing so, 100-percent on TRUST that you say you are who you say you are; 2) given that a small percentage of really BAD people will use a VPN to download and share pictures and videos that are the kind that will get any holder a very LONG prison sentence, there is a very high likelihood that such illegal activities and illegal videos/images have been routed through YOUR VPN. So now, don't YOU have a problem? An intel-agency could show up with a COURT ORDER in hand, forcing YOU to install logs and to provide incriminating information to the agency... and the COURT will require you to NOT say a word to anyone. This kinda-sorta compromises everything, no? You might be 100-percent honest and real. You could be legit, yet there could be the equivalent of a THUG with a $5 wrench standing over your shoulder, forcing you to RAT OUT every customer, every URL visited, every illegal activity... forcing you to install logs, forcing you to remain quiet, and forcing you to comply with the THUG, 100-percent. A bit of a problem, no?
These are great points mate, it would be horrifying to be set up , and using a VPN is certainly a tool that could be used to do so. Interesting and disturbing points.
For legal reasons, vpn providers need to keep logs to identify users, doesn’t matter how much „no logs“ they put in marketing. This may not apply to all countries, but in Europe it is.
Rob has servers in European countries, and he has indicated that there are no logs on these servers. He has in place indicators for all of us users of his services to know if and when his business with no VPN logs has been compromised.
@@mistyculous9644 well, in the European country I live, I work for a service provider. Trust me, I know the legal situation since I had to implement technical „solutions“ 😀
@@mistyculous9644 it's funny that every time I answer to your comment with some insight infos, my comment gets deleted. Hehe...so, don't believe everything some "trustworthy" youtuber is saying in a video....
Using Brave with location turned off, your test site still shows the correct time zone and IP (unless i turn the VPN on). The maps are blank in all cases and turning on location permission on the browser makes no difference.
WebRTC, location data and browser canvas fingerprint are not blocked by a VPN. People need to get educated on this. Also, deleting a file from Windows doesn't delete the file name from the master file table. Lots of data being collected, even if you have disabled One Drive.
The main purpose of VPN is not to hide your IP address. Security was of course the key point in its inception, but the main reason behind is creation was to provide secure connection to a private corporate network. It doesn't hide your IP address at all, but it hides the resources that you are connected to inside the VPN
Well of course VPN providers are monitoring your internet activity and selling your data, just like anyone else. How else they could make profit, while providing their services so cheaply?
Two other elements to mention: 1) Device location by WFI proxy. If your Wifi is enabled, your device picks up its location indirectly from other WIFI network devices since these mostly have a location set or an IP address with a known location. 2) Device location by bluetooth proxy. Your device (a laptop for example) has its location set to ABC, your device logs my bluetooth device nearby and shares that data, ergo my device must be at ABC. Bottom line, unless you are using a type-writer, its very difficult to hide location in 2024.
I use proton vpn and mail they have a strict no log policy and have been audited many times successfully showing no data stored it's a Swiss company and Switzerland is very strict on protecting freedoms and privacy
@@IXXI7 under Swiss law, Proton can be forced to collect/give out information on accounts belonging to users under Swiss criminal investigation. as happened in 2021 with french climate activists.
I use the ProtonVPN and love it. Each computer and cell phone shows up at a different location. I've thought about setting up the firewall to route everything over the VPN, but I have some need to connect to other local computers outside of the office firewall and before the border firewall.
The first thing that should be said in a video about VPNs is that the term is a misnomer. The correct term is "Proxy". A VPN is a different mechanism for a different purpose.
@@robbraxmantech That's what Elon Musk meant when he said VPN. He really meant "Proxy". The term VPN unfortunately has been taken over by Proxy service providers purely for marketing purposes (because it contains the word "private" in it). All those browser extensions that offer a VPN service in reality are a Proxy service.
I agree with your point. Virtual private networks were first created to just create a private network hidden from the public network while still running over the public network (like the Internet). However, these days, people are using VPNs "like" proxies, but they are still inherently VPNs. As an aside, my first ever VPN was to play a game that only supported LAN play, with a friend at the other end of my city, over the internet. Think it was using Windows XP's built in VPN.
In certain parts of the world, that are so well wiretapped by gov agencies, they don't even need to ask a VPN provider for logs. In such places even a no-logs provider can't help you. What does it matter, if a VPN provider does not have logs to provide, if the in and out of the datacenters are already wiretapped and the agencies can do traffic analysis time-based and taking into account other factors too to construct a map for them who is using what IP at a given time....
Years ago I had a job at an internet company. To look at traffic issues had to look at users browsing. Interestingly, a lot of it was adult corn. Obviously they weren't using a vpn.
I Rob, thanks for the video. I tried to visit and navigate to your website, but it's a bit cumbersome. I am very confused as to how to purchase the VPN or any other product you sell.
There is nothing cumbersome. Brax.Me is NOT A STORE. It is a social media site. It HAS A STORE. When you join then you have access to the store. Over 100K people there
I run my own vpn on my router at home. Thus when out and about, I can use the vpn to avoid snooping by what ever wifi I'm on. I don't need a vpn to hide what I do from my ISP, or gain access to say the US version of a streaming service. And often the likes of Microsoft, Google and FB will still know what you do, with or without a vpn.
Can anyone shed light on this question? I notice in many airports with free wifi services block VPNs. I thought using a VPN would avoid getting tons of spam after using these free providers. Can anyone explain how this works?
Hey Rob, off subject, i know how you feel about google but can you give me what you think about what play store is doing with their security lockdown of users side loading an app and google will remove it and all data. Sounds like they are setting up a way to keep people from communicating. I understand that a user could download malicious code.
It's a setting that can be disabled. If google completely blocks sideloading apps, then app developers will need a way to bypass it, because how else will they develop their apps before publishing them on the store?
When you are on a family member's Verizon cell phone plan, does it make any difference whether or not I use a VPN when the family member, who owns the plan does not care about privacy at all but I do? Also I do not live in the same area as the family member but live in another County over and I access the internet via a T-Mobile T-10 cellular hotspot so would it make sense to use a VPN with this hotspot to get online?
Hi Ron, great video. A question, I got laid off from my job in 2015. I applied for unemployment benefits. I went to Peru for a week and made the mistake of certifying for benefits in Peru. NY state must have seen that I was outside of the USA and denied my benefits, could a VPN installed on my laptop have prevented this?
So with IE with my VPN on it comes up with my actual address, using brave or opera it comes up blank. Does that mean IE is providing this data and the others are not?
hey i activated a vpn and it doesn't show me on your site, maybe i got good security on browser? Your IP is xxx Your IP does not appear to be protected. If you do not have a VPN, you need one! Someone is recording this IP and tracking all your Internet activities.
I'd suggest trying another ip reveal site. There are lots of them. Your browser will not hide your IP by itself as the website you are visiting needs to have an IP to send the data to. Like if you want to mail someone a letter you need to have some address whether that address is someone's real home address or a post office box.
I’ve tried using a vpn, but it blocks me from going to some sites that I have a legitimate reason to go to, such as my church website and my bank website. I’d like to use one, but it’s too frustrating to be blocked from websites I WANT to go to.
Question for Rob - if I use a VPN router and wish to connect to my work which also uses a VPN that connects to my current WiFi , how will that work since I will now have to log in to a VPN through a VPN router?
You only need to access the internet through the VPN router, you don't need any other VPN, provided the VPN in the router is working. There is no need for more than one layer of VPN unless you don't want the VPN router to know about your device such as real IP or Mac address.
If I have to give a company my data in order for others not to have access to that data... It's mafia-protection... Under what guarantee is my data safe with the former rather then the latter.
Weird, your tool showed me the wrong OS I use and wrong amount of memory (either my pc or modem router), and no location other than the timezone setting of my pc and language setting in my browser. I have no VPN or whatever. Is my ISP doing this for me?
great lesson video for me!!! 🤠 would like a brax router unfortunately with ATT I do not think it would work since they have a proprietary router, what are your thoughts/ideas on this, and am I or am I not able to switch and have their service go/cont through the new secure router??
Can't you use TOR to get around most of these regional problems? I understand that an internet provider will see you accessing TOR, so is it banned in some countries?
@@robbraxmantech Not to be argumentative, but can't you just use the built-in proxy service on the TOR browser? Is there a way ISPs are detecting and blocking those too?
Does not ipv6 by its very nature uniquely disclose end-point identity (there is no NAT at the isp to mask each connection amidst the whole of the traffic) Please explain my misunderstanding.
You are very correct. But currently iPV6 doesn't route to the Internet. So it's like the LAN of the carrier. I do have an iPV6 video but looks like you already understand it.
I use policy based routing and set rules in my external firewall to route specific domains, ip addresses, countries etc. through different vpn configuration files i have imported into it. Routing traffic this way doesn’t slow down my internet and i encrypt my dns using dns over tls. Works great thus far.
Most users of VPN’s are business users. I have not worked in a company for years that does not requires you to use a company issued VPN to access corporate systems
I live on an ocean going sail boat in Australia, I have 12 volt power I don't have 110 AC I like to explore your combo idea of VPN with Tor. Is this the Braxrouter hard and software? can it be powered by 12 volt or 240/250 AC? Finaly installing this hardware do you also have to have a subscription to for VPN and Tor combo? Thanks for your effort.
AS long you sign up with a VPN that's outside of the 14eyes? Can you combine a service like NextDNS with a VPN? will that strengthen the privacy barrier?
Is it true that NordVPN isn’t part of the 13 countries which can demand your IP address. Because NordVPN is in Panama. One of the countries not part of this treaty.
What are your thoughts on Rapid radios? They are an cellular LTE radio company that broadcasts on all 3 carriers and are suppose to be fully encripted. Is this true?
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Brazilian here. After this Elon Musk battle with the Supreme Court, i woke for the privacy problem. I am taking several measures to protect myself and your channel has been a great help! Thank you very much! I am learning a lot!
Glad I'm reaching Brazilians! I knew people who invented Bossa Nova can't be bad!
As a retired Network Architect, this is one of the best tutorials I've ever seen on the subject of individual use VPN. Thanks......😀
Greetings: Thx 4 the share
While VPN's are great for hiding location, there some drawbacks to consider. 1. Slows down the connection speed and increases latency. 2. Funnels all your traffic through a single point 3. 99% of sites are already HTTPS/TLS encrypted). 4. Costs extra money.
Thanks for this I must admit I didn't have a clue before I watched this, and. now I'm going to have to find out what sites and apps can give my location.
@@BillAnt I would argue that with modern throughputs speed the introduction of a VPN in the route is less of an issue than it used to be. I have tested my various connection points with and without VPNs and I can comfortably saturate any of them with regards to speed even while connected through a VPN. The latency could go up somewhat though, so in some cases (mainly gaming related for regular users) it could have a very slight detrimental effect on your experience.
@@DrBovdin - I agree speeds are ok especially with WireGuard, but there's no way around latency when you have a VPN (aka Men-In-The-Middle). Every millisecond ads up while fetching the elements of web-pages and of course for gaming. Pros and cons. I just don't like the idea of fueling all my traffic through a single choke point.
*I have a one single rule when it comes to any VPN, if any of them advertise (No Logs) but when you go to there terms and conditions and they have tons of reason they collect data it’s than it’s an instant no!. Tons of VPNs do this, I highly recommend to always read the terms and conditions always!!!*
Good recommendation!
@officialnotesonlifepodcast
Actually, read the agreement if you use micro soft, just don't blindly accept it.
Any security you thought you had with a vpn is lost anyway by merely accepting the terms of the micro soft license.
Why should you trust that the terms and conditions are truthful, complete and accurate? Who actually checks that they are doing what they say they are or are not doing?
indeed if you are going the way of security and privacy, make sure you first have an OS that supports this way )
like linux )
Lookup windscribe's logs policy, it is a good read
here in Brazil a 9k fine would literally ruin the life of 90% of people
Chambinho can't enforce that. It's just fear tactic.
prob 96%
Isn’t it amazing how the world is completely controlled by .01 percent of psychopaths who have been born into the role of controlling the masses by any means imaginable! If you don’t have a problem and barely surviving you’re probably not that concerned but when you are shunned by society and deemed mental illness it’s hard not to be pissed off.. anyone who knows the truth is automatically a mental case
@@W4rriorOfLightthey just threatening other than a small group that will be the ones who get whipped across their back but financially.. we all slaves to the “masters” like it or not
@weekendwarrior3420 The government was accused of censorship, so they censored things even more.
It’s incredible any government would ban privacy. Truly a sign of evil.
@DanN-wh3us be careful what you laugh at.
A lot of Americans hate trump because of what has been censored.
I would be more wary of what they let you see.
@@restfulplace3273 Instead of hating Trump for being an arseh0l3.
India has done something similar (require any VPN operating in the country to provide logs). As a result, it's hard to find a commercial VPN that lets you choose an Indian endpoint. I get around it using TailScale (and friends in India). No idea why though, as it prevents people outside India from pretending to be in India, but doesn't prevent people in India from pretending they're outside India!
Private companies are not above the law. Judges enforce the laws.
This video is why I trust "you Rob" thanks for being transparent 🤘🏼
Absolutely, he is clear and instructive even through he has a store.
@@johnrieley1404Even Rob need to put food on table
You rob? TOUCHÉ. These jokes write themselves.
I lived in China ten years ago and used a VPN to get through "the Great Firewall". It worked, but not for long. The Central Government put so many resources into hunting down and shutting down the ports that the most you could count on was a few days. (Sometimes, a few hours.) After that, you had to change servers and connection protocols. I got good at it and was generally able to get through. But, it was a hassle. My understanding this that it is far harder to do this in the PRC today. Whether Brazil is willing to go this far remains to be seen. Then again, I was using my VPN mostly to access RUclips, Netflix, etc.. A lot of these countries have their own local or regional equivalents. (Ex. No one in China pays to stream movies.) So, in the end Brazilians may not care enough to try to access Twitter. A lot of the country is too poor to afford a VPN service. Among the others who can, they generally use whatever works for staying in touch with other Brazilians. If this only damages some of Twitter's services, it may be enough for most Brazilians to dump Twitter.
I worked in China and SE Asia about ten years and had a similar experience as you. In the beginning I used Express VPN. I quit working three years ago and spent the last 18 months in the US.
I went to China two months ago to meet friends and from Nanning to Beijing express VPN did not work.
I ended up just using my Verizon data which is not fast but works well. I was afraid I would have a monster phone bill but I did not. I didn't take time to see what the international service cost was.
I am a full time crypto miner and have 80 Deeper Connect Mini in the US, which is a Decentralized VPN, it is a device not an app. Also have a few in Bangkok where I live. You buy the device and there are no other cost, plus they earn about five bucks a month.
Could you have used TOR in order to get around the firewall?
@@BuceGar My VPN had onion server options, but they didn't always work well. I've been told that the Central Government has been blocking TOR since 2010. I'd believe it. The fact is that 10 years ago, they were pretty damned good at blocking all protocols. Today, my friends there tell me things are much worse.
The biggest crowds in Twitter are Americans, indians and Brazilians.
Thanks for the practicality and history class on how this works and what can be done.
Interesting rob , and it is looking more and more likely that all these things will be needed as we progress
I came here after Google recommend me this channel😂😂😂. Google knows my interest that I am interested in hiding my privacy. Google says OK I have collected all your data now you can hide your privacy.😂😂😂
Its safe & Effective LOL
Yup! Always trust Google cuz they have your interest in mind. Elon Musk honestly deserves a Nobel Prize for whatever category they can dream up. Let’s just say freedom. Obama got one just for setting foot in the White House.
😂😅🤣This is good!
My main reason to use a VPN is to block ads. Services like Twitch force ads on you based on your geo location, determined by your IP. If you come from a rich country with a rather common language, a lot of companies run ads on platforms like Twitch. One example is German (I'm originally from Germany, living in Switzerland). If I'm connected to a German ISP, Twitch runs ads 2-3 times per hour with ads as long as 3 minutes. This is annoying to say the least. If I switch to a Swiss ISP, ads already go down to maybe 1-2 ads per day, usually 30 seconds in length. If I connect to a tiny country (e.g. Luxembourg) or a poor country (Albania), I see an 10 second ad maybe once every 2 months.
It's sad, that the Internet became with global ad platform. But there are ways around it, for the moment.
I make it a rule to not deal with any company that advertises to me. Sometimes I cut my nose off to spite my face but it makes me happy 😂
The reason people in 'rich' (enriched) countries get more ads than people in 'poor' (impoverished) countries is mainly because many of the impoverished countries either are not historically capitalist or have been historically socialist and therefore the hunger to consume anything and everything to fill the void is less present. Its not just about them not having as much money to spend on things. It is literally also that they don't want to.
I don't particularly prefer to use a VPN because it masks my location. I'm more looking for the encryption of my internet traffic so that my ISP, for instance, doesn't know what I'm doing at any point in time.
Shocking fact: your ISP cares about making a profit by selling their service, not what people do on the internet.
That lead me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Let's say you're planning to do something most people would see as horrific, but you want to maintain anonymity. If I were running an ISP, I'd want to avoid having customers using my hardware in that way. Encryption seems to go against an ISP's ability to safeguard from liability.
@@aradesh1134 If someone is planning to do something horrific and they use a public roadway to carry out that horrific act, does that make the local, state, or federal government liable because they use that roadway In the process of carrying out that horrific deed? No. Do we possibly know what everyone is doing on all those public roadways? No. Do we have some lawmakers that want to know and want laws in place to be able to track each one of us as we travel in our vehicles up and down public roadways? Yes. What are people's concerns for why they are against the government knowing those kinds of things? Those chief concerns are privacy.
Don't you think this same analogy could be applied to people using the internet? Blaming the ISP for a potentially unlawful activity that one or more of its users might carry out using its service would be equivocal to holding the owner of a roadway responsible for a driver carrying out a crime and using said roadway in the process. It's an absurd notion, I think.
@@UntakenNick sadly, they do care what we do on the internet in varying degrees. Why do these companies choose to limit or block certain kinds of traffic that flows on their service? If all they cared about was making a profit, then they wouldn't do that kind of thing.
@@aradesh1134 Knowing what you're doing would make them liable, not the other way around.
First, does the VPN actually own its network and servers?
Second, many VPN companies claim to be located in a non-Five Eyes nation, but this is a front. I personally knocked on the door a VPN company, and no VPN company was there. A Google Map search can find this.
Third, many VPN companies use virtual servers with virtual IPs to save cost. They claim you're connecting to a specific nation, but don't be surprised if your data is being routed to an entirely different location. In one instance, while in the USA and connecting to a nearby USA server, my data was being routed to Japan with huge delays!
I work in cyber security and I love how simply you explained this.
This is why I have been using your VPN for almost two years Rob!!!! I also have your email and phone services. I cannot thank you enough for doing what you do Sir!
I need to up my game
Make sure your own private vpn servers allow you to configure it to clear all connection data after you use them..
It’s all very important that while using a VPN, that you are not leaking any DNS traffic that can point back to you.
Protonvpn never fails
How can you protect DNS traffic?
In Australia the government has installed servers to log all metadata coming in and out of Australian data centres. Rob, does your VPN service have servers in Australia and if so I presume the Aust government is logging all metadata going in and out of them (which we can manage when we know that is going on)?
As someone who is an expat and lives outside of the US. All of my banks and credit cards are able to tell what region or city I am in around the world. For example, When I was in Manila, capital one even with my Express VPN turned on and set to NJ server, was able to tell what city and country I was in. I tried Nord VPN and every other VPN I was able to find. The reason this was such a issue was all these banks even with a VPN on, and would know my location and lock my account from access to "protect my account". Which is fine, I want they to safe guard my account. But VPNs do NOT hide you location and traffic like people think they do
Edit: Expert was Expat.
Not exactly correct. VPN hides the location (your address) and doesn't expose it. But bank apps use your GPS/wifi to validate it. Mocking GPS location helped me to trick the system. VPN does it job and is not responsible for data that your device sends. If it sends your GPS location, VPN service can't do much about it
I know it was a torture for you. In short, if you believe in certain line of the internet connection, be paranoid, you will over come your weakness and know how to deal with your Banks who are just wants to show you how Smart 🤓 are the stupid Banking sectors. 😊😊
@@pl8101 Did you smack your head on a door before you sat down to type this? I mean we all make typos. but your grammar is English as a 4th language level grammar.
@@houseaccount3293 How stupid are you. You will never learn about anything. 😂😂 😆
Cookies let the site admin know who you are... vpn... or not....
... no cookies... ???... well then... you get the text or phone verification requests... then "they" know who you are...
I used your IP-Check tool to test my IP connection on (1) Comcast, no VPN, (2) Using a private VPN that is served out of a data center I control, and (3) Proton VPM. In all three cases, your tool says I am NOT using a VPN. Clearly, my VPNs are not very private. I would love to see a more in depth discussion of why this might be the case.
Are you using Windows? Especially Windows 11. They like to bypass any VPN services because they think they own you which they do.
@@angelmarauder5647 I am well aware of Windows' tendency to enforce split tunneling and keep their telemetry connections open directly to their servers. There are ways to bypass that, but you have to dig into the registry, and tweak a few settings that can only be reached with an administrator powershell. I spent some long hours fighting that battle a few years ago. I don't imagine it has gotten better since. But that is precisely WHY I don't use Windows (except when I must, for an unenlightened customer). So, no, this test I referenced was on a Mac, which has generally been better behaved. But clearly, it would appear that Apple has implemented some of Microsoft's bad ideas. It is increasingly becoming the case that if you want to keep things private, you simply MUST be on Linux. Neither MacOS nor Windows (10 or 11) can be trusted.
@@angelmarauder5647 Want to know what the meaning of futile is.... try to completely get rid of Defender ... and I mean completely.
I run 11 as a virtual machine and I do not need any of that shit . I had to go thru hell and back, registry tweaks, host files to get it to stop with it's bullshit and warnings. even to this day I still have Antimalware core and service executable hanging out in my task manager
You may have misunderstood what a VPN does. A private PVN is indistinguishable from traffic originating on that server. If you control the private VPN, unless hundreds of other users are also using your private VPN, nobody will be able to detect that it is indeed a VPN.
@@angelmarauder5647 That's just dumb, the OS does not control whether you use a VPN, and if you do the OS cannot access the traffic on that VPN. The connection to the VPN is outside the OS's control. Again, an OS cannot "bypass" VPN services - with the exception of "system updates" and that sort of connection, which is non-consequential if your concern is protecting the privacy of your network communication.
On YT if you use any country VPN server you will get the adverts of that country in their language and any censorship regarding Copyright of music. If you access Amazon through a VPN it will show your enquiry from the VPN country you are using and give you warnings as to delivery options to that country, good tests to show your VPN is working.
Two things occur to me re VPN. Always assume that you are being overheard everywhere always. If you do not wish to have overheard what you are saying do not use any electronic media and do not be anywhere near any other electronic device. This is why such conversations in the films are held in secure gardens whilst walking around!
I was also going to suggest using a pager but that now seems somewhat problematic too😂
Will someone explain this tr0glodyte what The P@triot act was? The repealing of Habeus C0rpus and $hit. Don't tell me this thing is a real person.
I worked for an ISP in the 90’s. The CEO said users/subscribers and even employees should just assume that “someone is always watching like any other public space. The internet is not private, and encryption might not be a long-term reliable solution.”
With the tech as it is today that statement is probably truer now than it was then.
@@fishhuntadventure So to sum it all up ... we're screwed no matter what we do?
@RobinWells: 😂 Hilarious but true
@@robinwells8879 heck even the squirrels have a cell phone these days! The OG at just trying to get a nut! 🐿️ 🥜
This is such a top tier explanation. Very good examples to help folks follow along. Never forget that folks are always working to protect better (and attack better) so always try to update your knowledge on what you are using. This goes for not just vpns, but os, software, networks, etc. Thanks for the explanations.
"The judge was confused about the technology " that pretty much sums up the problem with people in power.
13 years in devops, and over 20 years in dev/IT. this is literally the first time i heard the term "VPN Insiders".
Just a little note Rob: If a company/service/agency are using a real good security system they should be able to filter "Source" and "Origin" without guessing. That way...you cant "cheat" the destination. In fact, most of those company/service/agency "encourage" that the first line of defense would be more open than the basic generic servers. Why? To be able to collect as much data they can and... spy.
The problem is the ACCESSIBILITY, I am in China, if I use a router VPN many Chinese APP stop to function because they cannot access outside locations. So if I want to go to blocked websites than I will switch it on.
Rob, the Brazil government could see who is sending traffic to a VPN (without knowing, yet, that it is a VPN), by seeing that, aside from an initial DNS lookup by the user (for the client to connect to the VPN), no other DNS lookups have been requested by the user. And yet, lots of data passing between the user and the ISP. Or am I mistaken?
I do not know the laws in Brazil. But when they outlaw X, and they have no freedom of speech, then I would imagine that the Brazil police might be ordered to round up anyone using a VPN service, or to break in to people's homes who are suspected of using a VPN service. Thus, if my first paragraph is correct, the citizens of Brazil might get their doors kicked in if they have only 1 DNS lookup, followed by streams and streams of encrypted data, 100% of which is going to a single IP address in a foreign country.
And it is only a matter of time before the Brazil authorities identify who owns the target IP address.
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Logs:
Courts can order a VPN service provider to keep logs, and also issue a gag order, not allowing the VPN service provider to reveal the court order for them to keep logs.
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I see VPN services as glorified proxy servers, that are highly attractive to governments.
There are legitimate uses for VPN services. But I would never trust one where my freedom would be at stake, and be at the whim of an anonymous VPN employee handing over my data to the authorities.
Just use Tor browser with the VPN and you’re 100% safe.
@@rashidismail9537 I do not know.
cutting one's nose to spite in own face
Brazil is headed to Venezuela.
"Courts can order a VPN service provider to (...)"
Brazil has no jurisdiction in the US while Israel would certainly be given any information, they demand on behalf of national security - it is even likely that the drama is a ruse to have citizens of Brazil to migrate their data into the US thus having leverage over a BRICS member.
Understanding the geopolitics of telecommunication is a factor: Chinese companies won't likely sell data to the US and vice versa when in a state of Cold War - that is the position of the consumer wherever they have residency - hence the popularity of Swiss bank accounts in the past and British Commonwealth oversea trusts that can't be forced to comply with British law.
@@christophmahlerAwesome comment.
NO GOVERNMENT has any jurisdiction over any human..Governments are service corporations that write policy NOT LAW.
Which alternate reality did you just warp in from?
@gh8447 ..You obviously have no clue as to why I wrote that.
@@triplemotor It's obvious that he understands exactly why you wrote that. He was very kind in that his comment didn't assume that your problem is a deficiency in grey matter.
@tomgoff7887 ...You are another unconscious incompetent, and YOU definitely lack Grey matter
Excellent information about the realities of VPN use. Obviously, they really are a useful part of our 'security layer'.
As a seperate topic I visited the 'Geo' website. It showed that I could be located by 'wireless' data. Ouch.
I realized I needed to switch off 'Geolocation' from my browser. Embarrasing, not a major issue for me. However, it was an excellent reminder about us needing to be careful about how we use the 'internet' as regards privacy with web browsers.
Thanks for all your work. It really is appreciated. :)
Any VPN usage can be detected by deep packet inspection. In China, any VPN connection usually lasts less than a day, then it gets blocked. Exception: users of foreign data plans, Wifi in top hotels.
How does the MITM get a trusted certificate on your device?
Would a VPN be useful if you are the victim of a stingray attack? Or, if your Internet traffic is being spied on from a remote source?
A vpn didn't help Steve Irwin😥
@@CarlCarson362his son is a nice fork, I think.
If you’re behind a web proxy server, it will appear as multiple hosts are using the same IP address too.
Something else to consider is most employer provided mobile devices (computers, smart phones) use a vpn to connect to the company’s network to access resources.
few people know that a considerable chunk of that market-including three of the six most popular VPNs-is quietly operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to that country’s national security state, including the elite Unit 8200 and Duvdevan Units of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). They in turn cooperate with many state and private actors.
How do you know that? What about tor?
KAPE technologies is Israeli and has more than 3 vpns
But PIA/surf shark are 2 I remember
@@martinluther673 wonder if proton vpn is safe, free stuff usually isn't. Even ad blockers have full access to browsing
Yup.
Ok, naziboy.
Thanks for making this video, it was certainly educational! Also, I learned a new threat to avoid, namely fingerprinting. Now, your site gets that wrong too ;) Love your work, and it´s very helpful. I will consider your services upon renewal.
I trust good VPN/DNS provider companies far FAR more than I trust my local ISP/DNS.
The only VPN you can trust - is if you absolutely know who & where BOTH endpoints are owned and operated by.
So sad really... thanks for shining some light on this important topic.
VPN are not a magical device any device either.
Thanks Rob, I love your clips! I am in Europe and have to use VPN to access RT and sometimes to protect my privacy, since I am a dissident...
Are you dissidenting right now?
Why would u wanna watch that latrine RT?!
Latest moves by the EU and Brasil against Musk and Durov mean the next move can only be p2p fully distributed networks, protocols like Tor ir Nostr. Service Providers are Single Points of Failure
Unfortunately too many Tor endpoints are honeypots, and because Tor switches endpoints so often, even having 1% of the nodes compromised means your traffic will be discovered.
@@KristopherNoronha Ideally, we would end up having a decent percentage of the population realise the importance of privacy. So much so that buying your own open source router at home will become relatively frequent, and each of those routers has a single server facing the Internet, a Tor server. All the rest behind the NAT. With a few million nodes, it will not be so easy to trace. For this to work, that device must be like buying a mobile today, or a tv, no nerdiness required.
Privacy is a social problem. Being a nerd lone wolf with "perfect" privacy only goes so far, it kind of puts a target on your back. But even just 1 out of 100 normies onboard privacy, things change greatly.
And you think Elmo Musk is fighter for freedom or what? When he is a friend Putin, with Putin's little bich Trump? With Holocaust deniers? With Naredra Módí, with Erdogan, who block all their political opponents? Whenever any dictator asks him to block any opponent of any dictator, he bows, spreads his legs, and does as hes told by the dictators.
Very interesting... But do you accept Monero for payment for ultimate privacy?
It is very easy to deploy a VPS and install wireguard, it is just basic configuration, no fancy knowledge required.
Do you mean a VPN?
@@markylon Use AWS or Linode and load up an ubuntu server instance with low hardware requirements so it is cheap. Then you can connect to it via VPN connection. Only you are using the VPN so it wont be flagged as one. You can change your IP or move your instance to another region of the world with a few mouse clicks.
Wireguard is easily detected and can be banned. Yeas it s easy to setup and use but…Use vless reallity or something similar instead.
@@markylon some people prefer to deploy Wireguard protocol on a VPS and create their own VPN service rather than subscribing to a commercial VPN Providers. I believe you must choose the hosting service provider carefully or it’s just as useless as average commercial VPN.
@@Hencules I have my own vps. So not a problem
Nord vpn is total crap. It spontaneously drops and asks for your login credentials even when you are in auto kill mode.
Sorry you had to learn about it this way
I have not seen this behavior from their product over the past two years as I have used it.
Apart from the interruption of dropping why would this be a privacy concern? If the VPN drops nothing has any internet connection so browsers won't be showing your IP address to anyone because they can't connect to the internet. That's what autokill is for.
The login app of the VPN is not a concern since they already know your IP.
@@linsqopiring6816 what happens is nordVpn suddenly just isn't on and the kill switch hasn't killed anything. So im on the internet with no vpn, totally exposed. I've had it happen to me repeatedly on multiple macbooks. Complete garbage product. Im going to move to proton Vpn or brave vpn.
I never have that issue.. using for a yr takes about 10% off my download speed but that's OK 215 down os fine for me
Any serious VPN product (at least, in the US) can be expected to be compromised by intelligence or the gov't with a Patriot Act legal authority. These include a non-disclosure requirement that forbids recipients from discussing the letter's contents and instructions with anyone other than an attorney. A similar approach is used for patents that are perceived to be a "threat to national security" which could mean anything. Privacy doesn't really exist, but there are things you can do on your own, and that's where the average person loses out as it's not easy. And so here we are.
Great explanation. The point where guests in your network can expose your identity is creepy. I have no router with VPN. I may download a third party firmware.But thats also risky in a way.
digital awareness is so less in all of us who foolishly believe assume that they are educated ones and feeling living dignified life is so stupid. I got stuck into legal battle with real estate mafias who later got the digital help then got in to my computer and mobile and loot some cryptos there and made privacy in to hell. In this connection I even tried seekin help with my basic rights protecting officials, unfortunately it didn't work. In digital age common citizen is so helpless he simply doesn't know whats going on with him and perpetrators will be looking n controlling at his private life like mean gods .
However, what really happening in case of Elon Musk and Brazil SC is unknown. As we have seen Elon's intentions and directions aren't mostly that straight and people friendly. As an entrepreneur we have seen Jack Ma's approach has clarity, straight and people friendly. The mumbling Musk sounds fishy many a times. And Brazil is known for its patriotism 'be Brazilian and Buy Brazilian."
Rob, two things you did not mention, and they are BIG: 1) any VPN choice boils down to one factor, do you TRUST that VPN to be as they represent themselves? How many "honey pots" are there out there? If I were a three-letter intel agency, I would invest a lot of resources into creating a front. How much would it cost to have a bad actor pretending to be a good actor? Rob, YOU could be an intel-agent, making six-figures every single month to PRETEND to be a good guy. Rob, you could talk forever and never be able to provide PROOF that you are not a front for a honey pot. If anyone buys YOUR VPN service, they are doing so, 100-percent on TRUST that you say you are who you say you are;
2) given that a small percentage of really BAD people will use a VPN to download and share pictures and videos that are the kind that will get any holder a very LONG prison sentence, there is a very high likelihood that such illegal activities and illegal videos/images have been routed through YOUR VPN. So now, don't YOU have a problem? An intel-agency could show up with a COURT ORDER in hand, forcing YOU to install logs and to provide incriminating information to the agency... and the COURT will require you to NOT say a word to anyone. This kinda-sorta compromises everything, no? You might be 100-percent honest and real. You could be legit, yet there could be the equivalent of a THUG with a $5 wrench standing over your shoulder, forcing you to RAT OUT every customer, every URL visited, every illegal activity... forcing you to install logs, forcing you to remain quiet, and forcing you to comply with the THUG, 100-percent. A bit of a problem, no?
These are great points mate, it would be horrifying to be set up , and using a VPN is certainly a tool that could be used to do so.
Interesting and disturbing points.
Rob mentioned that his servers don’t have sufficient storage to make a usable log.
Also, Rob has put into place indirect indication that his VPN has been compromised and no longer is safe as advertised.
This must be the best non-sales sales video ever made haha. Thx for the awesome explanation, digital sifu
For legal reasons, vpn providers need to keep logs to identify users, doesn’t matter how much „no logs“ they put in marketing. This may not apply to all countries, but in Europe it is.
Rob has servers in European countries, and he has indicated that there are no logs on these servers. He has in place indicators for all of us users of his services to know if and when his business with no VPN logs has been compromised.
@@mistyculous9644 well, in the European country I live, I work for a service provider. Trust me, I know the legal situation since I had to implement technical „solutions“ 😀
@@mistyculous9644 it's funny that every time I answer to your comment with some insight infos, my comment gets deleted. Hehe...so, don't believe everything some "trustworthy" youtuber is saying in a video....
@@rpf23543 RUclips will delete comments with URLs in them.
Using Brave with location turned off, your test site still shows the correct time zone and IP (unless i turn the VPN on). The maps are blank in all cases and turning on location permission on the browser makes no difference.
WebRTC, location data and browser canvas fingerprint are not blocked by a VPN. People need to get educated on this. Also, deleting a file from Windows doesn't delete the file name from the master file table. Lots of data being collected, even if you have disabled One Drive.
All computers have a back door to the Pentagon, right?
The main purpose of VPN is not to hide your IP address. Security was of course the key point in its inception, but the main reason behind is creation was to provide secure connection to a private corporate network. It doesn't hide your IP address at all, but it hides the resources that you are connected to inside the VPN
Well of course VPN providers are monitoring your internet activity and selling your data, just like anyone else. How else they could make profit, while providing their services so cheaply?
That's why you should go with a VPN you trust like Rob's or a big name one. The big name ones have too much to lose.
How can a judge impose a penalty on the public. Doesn’t a law have to be passed by their legislators making it illegal?
Two other elements to mention: 1) Device location by WFI proxy. If your Wifi is enabled, your device picks up its location indirectly from other WIFI network devices since these mostly have a location set or an IP address with a known location. 2) Device location by bluetooth proxy. Your device (a laptop for example) has its location set to ABC, your device logs my bluetooth device nearby and shares that data, ergo my device must be at ABC.
Bottom line, unless you are using a type-writer, its very difficult to hide location in 2024.
Mullvad was raided by the Swedish police, but had no logs to give to the authorizes. Even our intelligence services uses Mullvad. And that says a lot.
Does Brazil even have the resources to enforce VPN checks?
No. Just be not completely ignore the issues involved in this with Brazil.
If anyone is curious about Nord VPN, they're based out of Panama, as their jurisdiction doesn't require data retention or log storing
No log policy is key in a vpn provider
I use proton vpn and mail they have a strict no log policy and have been audited many times successfully showing no data stored it's a Swiss company and Switzerland is very strict on protecting freedoms and privacy
@@IXXI7Proton is it. Been using them nearly 2 years now. I've had zero issues with them.
@@IXXI7 is nordvpn good?
@@IXXI7 under Swiss law, Proton can be forced to collect/give out information on accounts belonging to users under Swiss criminal investigation.
as happened in 2021 with french climate activists.
So I am a little confused. Some people say you need to use a VPN with Tor. But it sounds like you need to use TOR without a VPN.
Same here,some say not use VPN with TOR the VPN will expose you using TOR???
Use TOR and you dont need a VPN.
@@aracy_de_almeida thanks for your good advice,best wishes
One thing I don’t see addressed is do VPNs help with latency? Many advertise that using their vpn can help ping with games.
I use the ProtonVPN and love it. Each computer and cell phone shows up at a different location.
I've thought about setting up the firewall to route everything over the VPN, but I have some need to connect to other local computers outside of the office firewall and before the border firewall.
The first thing that should be said in a video about VPNs is that the term is a misnomer. The correct term is "Proxy". A VPN is a different mechanism for a different purpose.
You are incorrect. Proxy is a completely different protocol than a VPN. This video is not about proxies.
@@robbraxmantech You just repeated what I said.
You do not access Twitter using a VPN. You do that using a Proxy.
Oh you mean use a Proxy from Brazil to skirt this law?
@@robbraxmantech That's what Elon Musk meant when he said VPN. He really meant "Proxy".
The term VPN unfortunately has been taken over by Proxy service providers purely for marketing purposes (because it contains the word "private" in it).
All those browser extensions that offer a VPN service in reality are a Proxy service.
I agree with your point. Virtual private networks were first created to just create a private network hidden from the public network while still running over the public network (like the Internet). However, these days, people are using VPNs "like" proxies, but they are still inherently VPNs.
As an aside, my first ever VPN was to play a game that only supported LAN play, with a friend at the other end of my city, over the internet. Think it was using Windows XP's built in VPN.
In certain parts of the world, that are so well wiretapped by gov agencies, they don't even need to ask a VPN provider for logs. In such places even a no-logs provider can't help you. What does it matter, if a VPN provider does not have logs to provide, if the in and out of the datacenters are already wiretapped and the agencies can do traffic analysis time-based and taking into account other factors too to construct a map for them who is using what IP at a given time....
Years ago I had a job at an internet company.
To look at traffic issues had to look at users browsing.
Interestingly, a lot of it was adult corn.
Obviously they weren't using a vpn.
I Rob, thanks for the video. I tried to visit and navigate to your website, but it's a bit cumbersome. I am very confused as to how to purchase the VPN or any other product you sell.
There is nothing cumbersome. Brax.Me is NOT A STORE. It is a social media site. It HAS A STORE. When you join then you have access to the store. Over 100K people there
start out at bytzVPN.com for explanation and then go to Brax.me to purchase at Brax's STORE in the main menu
I run my own vpn on my router at home. Thus when out and about, I can use the vpn to avoid snooping by what ever wifi I'm on.
I don't need a vpn to hide what I do from my ISP, or gain access to say the US version of a streaming service. And often the likes of Microsoft, Google and FB will still know what you do, with or without a vpn.
Can anyone shed light on this question?
I notice in many airports with free wifi services block VPNs. I thought using a VPN would avoid getting tons of spam after using these free providers.
Can anyone explain how this works?
Hey Rob, off subject, i know how you feel about google but can you give me what you think about what play store is doing with their security lockdown of users side loading an app and google will remove it and all data. Sounds like they are setting up a way to keep people from communicating. I understand that a user could download malicious code.
It's a setting that can be disabled. If google completely blocks sideloading apps, then app developers will need a way to bypass it, because how else will they develop their apps before publishing them on the store?
I tried to buy a de-google phone here in Brazil with you because of these things. I wanted help with some simple import processes, remember?
"Staring Rob Braxman." Will we be able to get autographed headshots soon?! 😂❤
When you are on a family member's Verizon cell phone plan, does it make any difference whether or not I use a VPN when the family member, who owns the plan does not care about privacy at all but I do?
Also I do not live in the same area as the family member but live in another County over and I access the internet via a T-Mobile T-10 cellular hotspot so would it make sense to use a VPN with this hotspot to get online?
short answer, yes. Long answer, if you are asking what you did then you don't understand VPN use, I suggest you read more on the subject.
Thank you, Rob.
so , the fascist judge is telling people not to post fascist stuff ? 😒😒😒😒😒😒
My fascism is good fascism and your fascism is bad fascism. Pretty much sums up human Civilization boils down to
@@reekinronald6776 yes great reply , so true 👍
@@reekinronald6776it’s one step higher than that, my cult is gooder than your cult.
@@upyours1256 Fascism isn't when you don't get what you want, crybaby.
@@fun_ghoul that has nothing to do with fascism , you are either one of those paid grubs in the comments sections , or just plain an idiot !
Hi Ron, great video. A question, I got laid off from my job in 2015. I applied for unemployment benefits. I went to Peru for a week and made the mistake of certifying for benefits in Peru. NY state must have seen that I was outside of the USA and denied my benefits, could a VPN installed on my laptop have prevented this?
My God, you are a fool but at least you learnt from your stupid mistakes. 😊😊
So with IE with my VPN on it comes up with my actual address, using brave or opera it comes up blank. Does that mean IE is providing this data and the others are not?
Thank you for your efforts.
13:56 actually ISPs can know the host name of the site you are visiting by doing deep packet inspection.
And how does your VPN company keeps track of paying customers? you must keep track of something, like payment info, etc.
hey i activated a vpn and it doesn't show me on your site, maybe i got good security on browser?
Your IP is xxx
Your IP does not appear to be protected. If you do not have a VPN, you need one! Someone is recording this IP and tracking all your Internet activities.
I'd suggest trying another ip reveal site. There are lots of them. Your browser will not hide your IP by itself as the website you are visiting needs to have an IP to send the data to. Like if you want to mail someone a letter you need to have some address whether that address is someone's real home address or a post office box.
I find it's much easier to simply agree with and repeat the narratives handed down by the ruling class of my country's current government.
I’ve tried using a vpn, but it blocks me from going to some sites that I have a legitimate reason to go to, such as my church website and my bank website. I’d like to use one, but it’s too frustrating to be blocked from websites I WANT to go to.
Question for Rob - if I use a VPN router and wish to connect to my work which also uses a VPN that connects to my current WiFi , how will that work since I will now have to log in to a VPN through a VPN router?
You only need to access the internet through the VPN router, you don't need any other VPN, provided the VPN in the router is working. There is no need for more than one layer of VPN unless you don't want the VPN router to know about your device such as real IP or Mac address.
If I have to give a company my data in order for others not to have access to that data... It's mafia-protection... Under what guarantee is my data safe with the former rather then the latter.
Weird, your tool showed me the wrong OS I use and wrong amount of memory (either my pc or modem router), and no location other than the timezone setting of my pc and language setting in my browser. I have no VPN or whatever. Is my ISP doing this for me?
Thank you for your work & keeing all of us informed!!!
great lesson video for me!!! 🤠 would like a brax router unfortunately with ATT I do not think it would work since they have a proprietary router, what are your thoughts/ideas on this, and am I or am I not able to switch and have their service go/cont through the new secure router??
You can still install your own router inside your network, and use your own router's Wifi instead of the ATT one.
I currently use OVPN. How do you compare to that service? What countries do you have exit nodes in? Static IPs?
I just heard about I2P a few days ago. Can that protocol be used to browse to X web site and what are the limitations and trade-offs compared to VPNs?
Can't you use TOR to get around most of these regional problems? I understand that an internet provider will see you accessing TOR, so is it banned in some countries?
Yes it is also banned by many websites
@@robbraxmantech Not to be argumentative, but can't you just use the built-in proxy service on the TOR browser? Is there a way ISPs are detecting and blocking those too?
Does not ipv6 by its very nature uniquely disclose end-point identity
(there is no NAT at the isp to mask each connection amidst the whole of the traffic)
Please explain my misunderstanding.
You are very correct. But currently iPV6 doesn't route to the Internet. So it's like the LAN of the carrier. I do have an iPV6 video but looks like you already understand it.
I use policy based routing and set rules in my external firewall to route specific domains, ip addresses, countries etc. through different vpn configuration files i have imported into it. Routing traffic this way doesn’t slow down my internet and i encrypt my dns using dns over tls. Works great thus far.
How do you deal with someone flooding the vpn server you are connected to slowing down your connection to make it unusable?
Most users of VPN’s are business users. I have not worked in a company for years that does not requires you to use a company issued VPN to access corporate systems
Robert any views on the exploding phones
I live on an ocean going sail boat in Australia, I have 12 volt power I don't have 110 AC I like to explore your combo idea of VPN with Tor. Is this the Braxrouter hard and software? can it be powered by 12 volt or 240/250 AC? Finaly installing this hardware do you also have to have a subscription to for VPN and Tor combo? Thanks for your effort.
12V power can be sent to an inverter, providing 110V AC. Smaller units (say 300 Watts, for example) are ridiculously low-cost.
AS long you sign up with a VPN that's outside of the 14eyes? Can you combine a service like NextDNS with a VPN? will that strengthen the privacy barrier?
So, in Brazil a Judge can make law?
I agree with you because lots of people they don’t know about the secret even the proclaiming you are secured
Is it true that NordVPN isn’t part of the 13 countries which can demand your IP address. Because NordVPN is in Panama. One of the countries not part of this treaty.
you said in the US you don’t have to abide to any laws asking for disclosure? What about FISA 702?
What are your thoughts on Rapid radios? They are an cellular LTE radio company that broadcasts on all 3 carriers and are suppose to be fully encripted. Is this true?