diff --git a/docs/basics/vpn-overview.md b/docs/basics/vpn-overview.md index f16129160..183e5b6a0 100644 --- a/docs/basics/vpn-overview.md +++ b/docs/basics/vpn-overview.md @@ -36,11 +36,9 @@ Note that a VPN does not add any security or encryption to your traffic between ## Should I use a VPN? -**Yes**, almost certainly. A VPN has many advantages, including: - +**Yes**, almost certainly. The advantages of a VPN include: 1. Hiding your traffic from **only** your Internet Service Provider. -1. Hiding your downloads (such as torrents) from your ISP and anti-piracy organizations. -1. Hiding your IP from third-party websites and services, helping you blend in and preventing IP based tracking. +1. Hiding your IP from third-party websites and services, preventing IP based tracking. 1. Allowing you to bypass geo-restrictions on certain content. VPNs can provide *some* of the same benefits Tor provides, such as hiding your IP from the websites you visit and geographically shifting your network traffic, and good VPN providers will not cooperate with e.g. legal authorities from oppressive regimes, especially if you choose a VPN provider outside your own jurisdiction. diff --git a/docs/vpn.md b/docs/vpn.md index c99b679ae..67a49388d 100644 --- a/docs/vpn.md +++ b/docs/vpn.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ global: - [:material-account-cash: Surveillance Capitalism](basics/common-threats.md#surveillance-as-a-business-model){ .pg-brown } -If you're looking for additional *privacy* from your ISP, on a public Wi-Fi network, or while torrenting files, a **VPN** may be the solution for you. +If you're looking for additional *privacy* from your ISP or on a public Wi-Fi network, a **VPN** may be the solution for you.

VPNs do not provide anonymity