http://www.davidwhitney.co.uk/Blog/2008/05/06/stop-holding-my-data-hostage-data-ownership-and-web-30/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:18:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.davidwhitney.co.uk/Blog/2008/05/06/stop-holding-my-data-hostage-data-ownership-and-web-30/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Latesha Mieras Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:09:43 +0000 http://www.davidwhitney.co.uk/content/blog/index.php/2008/05/06/stop-holding-my-data-hostage-data-ownership-and-web-30/#comment-12 Of course the VPN provider can see what you are doing if they want to. That's why using free proxies or vpn's is a bad idea. Free to you means they make their money going through your data and trying to figure out how to market that information. Even paid providers can be suspect but you have to at some point trust your provider to not look at your data. I've use surfbouncer, for quite some time and have a good feel for them. Others may be ok too but I haven't tried them. The bottom line though is that some VPN company you are paying to provide you service has the least reason to look at your stuff and is certainly better than the censors in your country knowing what you are doing. Of course the VPN provider can see what you are doing if they want to. That’s why using free proxies or vpn’s is a bad idea. Free to you means they make their money going through your data and trying to figure out how to market that information. Even paid providers can be suspect but you have to at some point trust your provider to not look at your data. I’ve use surfbouncer, for quite some time and have a good feel for them. Others may be ok too but I haven’t tried them. The bottom line though is that some VPN company you are paying to provide you service has the least reason to look at your stuff and is certainly better than the censors in your country knowing what you are doing.

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