Your Internet Service Provider is Watching — Here’s How to Disappear
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Summary
An increasing number of people are reliant on VPNs to ensure their internet browsing is completely secure, particularly when using shared or public W-Fi networks, according to a member-only article in tech and science website Medium.
The piece highlights how a VPN, or Virtual Private Network, encrypts users’ internet traffic, enabling them to mask their IP addresses and become “digital ghosts”.
It warns that without one, internet service providers are able to track every site visited and advertisers can track all clicks, while the user is vulnerable to having data stolen on unencrypted public Wi-Fi networks.
VPNs are no longer solely the domain of journalists or hackers, it adds.