minus-squareExperimentalGuy@programming.devtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Can someone explain to me the advantages of using a VPN?linkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agoI’m not an expert but I’m guessing unencrypted DNS requests and potentially monitoring IPs of different torrents. DNS requests would show what websites a user is going to, and then you can always see peer IPs when connected to a torrent. linkfedilink
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I’m not an expert but I’m guessing unencrypted DNS requests and potentially monitoring IPs of different torrents. DNS requests would show what websites a user is going to, and then you can always see peer IPs when connected to a torrent.