Using it as your engine results in your every online move being tracked and being sold by google to companies trying to get your money nevermind the targeted ads, etc. use another search engine. Plenty work just as well. I personally like DuckDuckGo. Make it your home page and preferred search engine on every device (phone, tablet, laptop and desktop). Unless you eliminate it everywhere you’re still being stalked recorded and your personal information. I’m not referring to your passwords, credit cards, social security number, etc. Companies are using your buying, searching, considering buying, travel, considering travel to try to control you with targeted ads after they pay google for it. You lock the house door when you go out. Why leave your internet history exposed ready to exploited?
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@jackjjackson Correct. That will protect you from your provider seeing what you are doing. My understanding is some of the older VPN keys have been cracked by the NSA so VPN is unlikely to prevent the government from seeing what you are doing should they choose to do so. Use the newer "OpenVPN" protocol instead.
@SumKindaMunster Really? Because I think India and Pakistan have gotten through my VPN somehow. They can STILL change my posts and more.👎 I'll check my settings. Thank you for saying.😊
@Peaches Typically a VPN connection can't be cracked by rank and file hackers or bad actors, likely you would need to have some connections to one of the Deep State organizations or professional hacking groups like Anonymous or the GRU to have that level of access.
@SumKindaMunster Well, I know they got through McAfee when I had it. I tried to get help on their forum and later found out I was muted. They also put a "stinger" on it. THEN one of them (he hides behind a "God" profile here) tricked me in to getting IPVanish for a VPN, it too was hacked. So I dumped it and came back here and told the b@stard off! I left SW for 4 months over trying to call these scammers out. They are professional hackers and it's a revenge hacking in my case, because my bank got most of my money back and their fragile egos can't handle that. I had trusted them years ago and let them in my computer remotely to help me recover my Face Book account.....they never left.👎They hassle me way more on Face Book than they will here, now that I came out publicly this past July. I named two of them. I think they are working from an illegal call center. Hope they get busted some how.😏
@SumKindaMunster I had no experience at the time with computers, I used to trust everyone. It hasn't worked out at all, but I really don't care anymore. They can't get in my bank account, at least I wasn't dumb enough to put that info AND my s.s. # on line!😎If there's something you don't want anyone to know, don't put it on line.
