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Question: how many of you uses a crypted VPN Tunnel daily? We all know that privacy is important and it will became more and more important in the next few years. Does tools like WireGuard help in these cases? Or I miss the main focus? Should we all used a private VPN tunnel?

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It depends on what you want to protect. It is obviously great if you use a lot of public wifi for example.

It's also great if your government is spying on you.

Otherwise you just delegate the privacy issues from your ISP to the ISP of your output server.

Personally, there is no reason to run a VPN all time from your home connection.

I run one most of the time (IKEv2). I'm in the UK, and do it on principle to stop my ISP storing details of every domain I visit on behalf of government agencies. If I were in the US I'd do it to prevent my ISP selling that data on.

(I also thought about setting something up for others, but this is currently 100% vapourware: http://digitalsnorkel.net/)

Really great name - you should keep going with this!

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