LogFAQs > #973138008

Krow_Incarnate posted...

No shit they know you're using a VPN. But aside from how much data you're transferring, that's all they know. That's nothing.

they also know where you're at, because the traffic is only encrypted once it hits the vpn service.

turning the vpn on, typing www.illegaldownloadshit.geocities.net, the request still goes through your isp, because it has to reach the vpn.

you're an utter fool if you genuinely think a vpn blocks everything, because it doesn't, it never has unless you're remoted into a vm somewhere else and using one on that.

a lot of services claim that the data is encrypted before it leaves the device. that's a mistruth, because your isp needs to know where to route the request. did you never actually wonder how people get hit with dmca notices and police raids for illegal activities, despite only ever using a vpn that claims to not store your data?

according to vpn providers and vpn stans, that can't be possible while using a vpn, and yet it happens all the time.

using a vpn is fine, it's just a fancier proxy server like back in the day. using it to get around region locking is the only thing it should be used for. using one for illegal activities wont actually stop you from getting found out if anyone were to actually want to. usually the isp doesn't care until they get told to push a notice to you from an outside organization. obviously this isn't true for all, third world countries and dictator countries, for example, they just block the vpn and make them illegal, like china and russia.