Dominic
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Are VPNs relevant for home users and home business users?
Hi,
The majority of my consulting is for individual UK Based home users and one/two - man band businesses. I have seen the recent rise in VPN services available given the need for increased privacy. I have been wondering whether these services would be of any use to my clients in the sense that if they value privacy, would it be a relevant service to offer them? A lot of these clients may not necessarily be visiting P2P sites or grayer areas of the Internet but can it still be effective in typical day to day activities.
I guess there will be trade offs in performance but before trialing out a service myself more thoroughly i wanted to see what the EE community have to say,
thanks
D
The majority of my consulting is for individual UK Based home users and one/two - man band businesses. I have seen the recent rise in VPN services available given the need for increased privacy. I have been wondering whether these services would be of any use to my clients in the sense that if they value privacy, would it be a relevant service to offer them? A lot of these clients may not necessarily be visiting P2P sites or grayer areas of the Internet but can it still be effective in typical day to day activities.
I guess there will be trade offs in performance but before trialing out a service myself more thoroughly i wanted to see what the EE community have to say,
thanks
D
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Hi - thanks for your comments,
What i had in mind more was the fact that there is a rising trend of VPN services such as ExpressVPN / NordVpn offering an anonymity (to an extent) on the web so people are not tracked and bombarded by advertising + their metadata is not harvested so readily and potentially lessens the chance of being hacked? So this is more a question of privacy for my clients. I don't know enough yet on this subject to be sure whether these services do indeed do what they say they do, hence why i am putting my feelers our first,
What i had in mind more was the fact that there is a rising trend of VPN services such as ExpressVPN / NordVpn offering an anonymity (to an extent) on the web so people are not tracked and bombarded by advertising + their metadata is not harvested so readily and potentially lessens the chance of being hacked? So this is more a question of privacy for my clients. I don't know enough yet on this subject to be sure whether these services do indeed do what they say they do, hence why i am putting my feelers our first,
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Thanks!
You are very welcome and I was happy to help.
Sorry I misunderstood the question. I don't believe there is much security added using these 3rd party VPN's. They do hide your IP but that is not really a concern for legitimate companies that host mail and web servers and there IP can readily be found anyway. As for advertising, do they help? I don't know and I can't see how. Their advertising is based on your browsing not your IP. It may be a case of you get less relevant adds for your geographic location, much like Windows 10 release; if you turn of various location and other features you now get a pop up saying it will not reduce the number of ads but reduce their relevance.
Best of luck.
Best of luck.
My business clients all use business IPsec VPN and I have the ability with a commercial VPN application to get to these clients.