{"id":1779,"date":"2020-07-07T05:44:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T05:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2020-07-07T05:49:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T05:49:40","slug":"pros-and-cons-of-vpn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/pros-and-cons-of-vpn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pros and Cons of Using a VPN"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1779\" class=\"elementor elementor-1779\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-230899b0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"230899b0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7ff48571\" data-id=\"7ff48571\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-48deb20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"48deb20\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"breadcrumbs-bar\"><nav class=\"blog-breadcrumbs\">\n<ul>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/\">HOME<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li class=\"bc-2nd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/\">BLOG<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c29e94 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1c29e94\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Pros and Cons of Using a VPN<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d6ac49d elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info\" data-id=\"d6ac49d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-info.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-d9c2fd9 elementor-inline-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-custom\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Douglas Moore\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-6a0ea6c elementor-inline-item\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJuly 7, 2020\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63f170a aff-disclosure elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"63f170a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Disclosure:<\/strong> Some links in this guide are affiliate links. We may get paid if you buy something or take an action after clicking one of these links, at no additional cost to you. It&#8217;s how we fund the work that it takes for us to create and maintain these guides.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-197d5d2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"197d5d2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pros-cons-vpn-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pros-cons-vpn-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pros-cons-vpn-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pros-cons-vpn-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pros-cons-vpn-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pros-cons-vpn.jpg 1777w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) are no longer just used by businesses to encrypt and protect their internal sensitive files and data. Today, VPNs are used by lots of average internet users to boost security, hide their private information from third parties, and access geo-restricted content.<\/p><p>Still, if you\u2019re new to VPNs you may still be on the fence about whether you actually need one. You may also be wondering what the advantages of using a VPN are, as well as the drawbacks and dangers. In this article, we\u2019ll try to provide you with a balanced picture of VPN pros and cons, what it can give you and what it can take from you.<\/p><h2>The Pros of Using a VPN:<\/h2><p>Let\u2019s first look at the pros of using a VPN. As we already mentioned, some nice perks are privacy, security, and the bypassing of geo-restrictions. But what exactly do these mean? We\u2019ll delve into these and several more advantages that VPNs offer to clients.<\/p><h3>1. Privacy<\/h3><p>Did you know what all your online activities, including which websites you visit, for how long, your comments on social media, your shopping habits, your search history, and more is available to third parties, such as your ISP (internet service provider), marketing and government agencies, and the websites you visit? (Yes, even when you browse in Incognito.) ISPs have been known to sell customer data to marketers so that they can target you with pesky ads. Websites force you to accept cookies, which then track your activities off their site as well.<\/p><p>VPNs help you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/what-does-a-vpn-hide\/\">hide your private online activities<\/a> from all these third parties. When you connect a device to a VPN, your data traffic gets rerouted through VPN servers which hide your activities from ISPs and also assign you a different IP address. You can regularly change your IP address and change server countries and locations so that your activities and identity will remain elusive to third parties.\u00a0<\/p><p>In other words, you\u2019ll seem to be someone from a different country accessing content from a different IP address. This means that marketers, for instance, won\u2019t be able to track you and target tailored ads your way.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>While a lot of the time people don\u2019t think that they\u2019re \u201cdoing anything bad\u201d that would require online anonymity, keep in mind all the ways that your private browsing history can be turned against you, and not only in marketing schemes. You have a chronic illness and are online browsing for solutions &#8211; would you want your insurance company to have access to this information? Nope, you would not.<\/p><h3>2. Security<\/h3><p>Although VPNs aren\u2019t foolproof, they can help you improve the security of your data and connected devices. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/nordvpn-vs-expressvpn\/\">best VPNs<\/a> employ 256-bit military-grade encryption to hide sensitive information from online threats like hackers. The danger of getting hacked &#8211; and hackers can steal personal data like banking and credit card information as well as spread malware to your devices &#8211; is especially prevalent in public locations. Coffee shops and airports are teeming with unsafe public WiFi networks, of which some are indeed set up by hackers, and are only masking as networks belonging to a certain establishment.<\/p><p>Connecting your smartphone, laptop, or tablet to a VPN will protect you from these online threats. In addition to encrypting your data, VPNs offer automatic WiFi protection which will come in handy in these scenarios.<\/p><h3>3. Access to Geo-Restricted Content (Streaming Services)<\/h3><p>There are mainly two reasons why some online content may be geo-restricted, or geo-blocked. The first one is censorship, and the second one is copyright laws. In the case of the former, some countries with more authoritarian regimes block online content on a country-wide scale to prevent the citizens of that country from accessing those websites. (In Turkey, for instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/3\/27\/5553426\/turkey-now-blocking-youtube\">YouTube<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-51133804\">Wikipedia<\/a> were blocked for years.) In the case of the latter, copyright regulations prevent users from other geographic regions to gain access to some streaming services. For instance, BBC iPlayer is only available in the UK. Plus, some Netflix libraries are only available in some countries &#8211; the US Netflix library which is arguably the richest, is only available in the US.<\/p><p>So, if you find yourself in a situation where for one reason or another you can\u2019t access a website or a streaming service, a VPN can help you. VPNs reroute you to a server in another country and give you a fake IP located in that country, so you would be able to access content which is available in that region. So for instance, if you want to watch BBC iPlayer, all you have to do is connect to a UK server. Geo-blocking is a thing of the past!<\/p><h3>4. Prevent Bandwidth Throttling<\/h3><p>ISPs may sometimes intentionally slow down your internet connection. This is called bandwidth throttling. ISPs sometimes do this when you game, stream or download, especially if you\u2019re torrenting (p2p sharing). If you\u2019ve noticed a slower connection when you engage in any of these activities, there\u2019s a good chance that your ISP is limiting your internet usage.<\/p><p>A VPN will prevent bandwidth throttling. As a VPN hides your online activities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/vpns-and-your-isp\/\">your ISP won\u2019t be able to tell what you\u2019re spending your data on<\/a>. All they\u2019ll know for sure is how much data you\u2019re spending. They won\u2019t be able to tell that you\u2019re torrenting, so they won\u2019t have any reason to slow down your connection.<\/p><p>A little bonus on the subject of torrenting: you know how when you torrent peers can see your IP? Well with a VPN, they won\u2019t be able to!<\/p><h3>5. Avoid Online Price Discrimination and Price Jumps<\/h3><p>I hate, hate, <i>hate<\/i> the manipulative, <i>evil <\/i>method in which a lot of airline companies sell tickets, torturing the last penny out of an uncertain customer. Has this scenario ever happened to you? You visit an airline website, look at the prices for tickets on certain days. You say, <i>I\u2019ll think about it, check out some other airlines<\/i>. You\u2019re back in a few hours or a few days, and the price has somehow jumped. Isn\u2019t the flight in another 3 months? How can the price change so quickly? And then the next day, there will be a new increase, until you\u2019re either too afraid that the price will further increase and buy the &#8211; now more expensive &#8211; ticket, or give up on your trip altogether.<\/p><p>This is not a coincidence, folks. Airlines and some online retailers track your activity on their website based on your IP address, and intentionally increase the price on your successive visits. Another way in which online price discrimination occurs is based on geographic region. Apparently, it\u2019s not the case that citizens of all countries deserve the same price opportunities. You may be seeing one price with an IP in the US, and a completely different price from an IP based in India.<\/p><p>A VPN can help you avoid this nonsense. As they hide your actual IP location, they also hide the actual geographic region where you\u2019re located. Plus, you can switch IPs and servers between two occasions on which you check the price for tickets on certain dates, so that the price doesn\u2019t purposefully increase.<\/p><p><b>Keep in mind<\/b> that to avoid price discrimination using a VPN isn\u2019t enough &#8211; you should also clear your cookies because websites can use those to track your device anyway.<\/p><h2>The Cons of Using a VPN:<\/h2><p>Now that we\u2019ve praised VPNs, let\u2019s look at what\u2019s not so great about them.<\/p><h3>1. Slower Internet Speeds<\/h3><p>Even the best VPNs that employ various speed-boosting technologies may end up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/everything-about-vpn-speed\/\">slowing down your internet speed<\/a>, even a little. There are two main reasons for this. Firstly, the encryption protocols that VPNs employ to secure the privacy of your data take a bit of time. Depending on which VPN you choose, you may be able to alternate between VPN encryption protocols depending on the task. So if you need speed, you can switch to a less secure but faster security protocol.<\/p><p>The other reason VPNs slow down your internet speed is that when you are connected to a physically distant server, for instance, one in a different country, the packets of data take longer to travel. The closest remedy for this is trying to connect to a server that\u2019s nearer to your location.<\/p><h3>2. Cost<\/h3><p>If you decide to use a VPN, you should definitely steer clear of free VPN providers. Because, as you know, there\u2019s no such thing as a free lunch. Firstly, free VPNs don\u2019t use strong security protocols, which may expose your devices to the vulnerability of hacker attacks and data leaks. Secondly, free VPNs can easily sell your data or access to your internet connection to third parties, and a lot of the time they do.<\/p><p>This means that you should get a paid, premium VPN. Good VPNs will cost you anywhere from about $4 to about $14 per month, based on what sort of a payment plan you opt for. The plans that offer the best value are those where you pay for at least a year in advance. When you pay for one, or two, or three years in advance the monthly cost is on the lower end of the price range, while the opposite is true of monthly, quarterly, and 6-month payments.<\/p><h3>3. You\u2019ll Have to Trust Your VPN Provider<\/h3><p>Your VPN will keep your data private from third parties, but technically, your data would still be visible to them. Good VPNs usually have a no-logs, or zero-logs policy, which means that they don\u2019t keep any logs of your online activities on their servers. Some may keep non-identifying information, like the times you\u2019re online. But in any case, you\u2019d have to trust your VPN to regularly clear their logs and not share your data with anyone else.<\/p><p>Another potential problem here is jurisdiction. Some VPNs that are based in Four Eyes Countries may be forced to disclose your online logs by government subpoena. If your VPN is headquartered in one of these countries, like the US, you should at least make sure that they don\u2019t keep any logs and regularly delete the data from their servers.<\/p><h3>4. Legal Trouble<\/h3><p>First off &#8211; don\u2019t worry, VPNs are legal in <i>most<\/i> countries. However, there are several countries, including China, Turkey, Iraq, Russia, Iran, and Belarus to name a few, where VPNs are banned. So if you\u2019re thinking of using a VPN in one of those countries, you would technically be breaking the law. The best advice we can give here is to use a VPN that uses obfuscation technology, or a cloak, which hides the fact that you\u2019re using a VPN from your ISP.<\/p><p>Another potential legal problem can arise from using a VPN to access geo-restricted streaming services. If you access <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/how-to-watch-bbc-iplayer-outside-the-uk\/\">BBC iPlayer from abroad<\/a>, for example, and the server administration team realize that you\u2019re using a VPN, your account may get suspended. So it\u2019s not like you\u2019ll get in any serious trouble, just a bit of a hassle until you find someone else whose details you can abuse to open a new account.<\/p><h2>Conclusion<\/h2><p>There are lots of advantages you can get from using a VPN. Privacy, security, and access to geo-restricted content are the most popular ones that people talk about, but avoiding things like online price discrimination and ISP throttling are excellent added extras.<\/p><p>Still, VPNs aren\u2019t perfect, and they\u2019re not completely foolproof, either. As we said, you have to trust your VPN, because sometimes even the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/10\/21\/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked\/#:~:text=NordVPN%2C%20a%20virtual%20private%20network,the%20company%20had%20been%20breached.\">best VPN providers can get hacked<\/a>. Plus, you\u2019ll have an additional monthly cost to consider.<\/p><p>Still, we\u2019d say that VPNs are well worth it. 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The short answer is a definitive yes. For the long answer, read on. We\u2019ll cover everything you want to know about VPNs, like what they\u2019re used for, their legal status, the level of protection they provide, how much they cost, the amount of data they spend, and so on.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<article class=\"elementor-post elementor-grid-item post-1759 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-vpns\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__card\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-post__thumbnail__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/how-to-set-up-vpn-on-android\/\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/vpn-android-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1760\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/vpn-android-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/vpn-android-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/vpn-android-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/vpn-android-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/vpn-android.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__text\">\n\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-post__title\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.domainnamesanity.com\/blog\/how-to-set-up-vpn-on-android\/\" >\n\t\t\t\tHow To Connect and Set Up a VPN on Android\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__excerpt\">\n\t\t\t<p>VPN on Android is using a VPN on your Android smartphone to get better privacy, security, and access to geo-restricted content. 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