How To Set Up A VPN After Congress Voted To Sell Your Online Data

How To Set Up A VPN After Congress Voted To Sell Your Online Data | IFLScience

Earlier this week, Congress voted to repeal Internet privacy restrictions, which will strip away the online privacy rights of American citizens and allow companies to buy your data. Here's how to set up a VPN. Article from IFLScience, March 2017.
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How To Set Up A VPN After Congress Voted To Sell Your Online Data

Earlier this week week, Congress voted to repeal Internet privacy restrictions. Once Trump signs it, which he is expected to do, it will strip away the online privacy rights of American citizens, allowing companies to buy your data.

Understandably, this has led people to start considering setting up Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). If you value your privacy, you may want to do the same.

A VPN is basically a private network that gives you an encrypted connection to the Internet. It makes it more difficult for people to eavesdrop on what you’re doing, and you can also use it to change your location to access sites or other material blocked in your country – like Facebook in China.

So, to protect yourself in the upcoming Internet war, here are a few tips.

First, the simplest way to set up a VPN according to Quincy Larson, a teacher at Free Code Camp writing for Medium, is to use the Opera browser. All you need to do is download it, turn on its ad blocker in the preferences, turn on its VPN, and then install a program called HTTPS Everywhere. You can install this on other browsers too. It ensures that you surf the web using the more encrypted HTTPS format.

If you want to take things a bit further, you can pay for a monthly VPN service, and there\'s a lot of choice on offer. As Wired notes, “there may be no such thing as a ‘best’ VPN. You’re simply looking for something with the best chance of working as advertised.” But they offer two suggestions: F-Secure Freedome or Private Internet Access.

Once you’ve got your VPN set up, you’ll be able to access it from your various devices. Some also have a “kill switch” to terminate certain programs if your connection becomes unstable. And you can use ipleak.net to see how secure your connection is.

A more extreme measure is to use Tor, which basically bounces your connection around other users around the world. Larson has a good run-through of how to set it up here.

The Verge cautions, though, that using Tor “can be a much slower, less convenient browsing experience than most people are used to.” So it may not be for everyone.

Unfortunately, there’s no perfect solution to browsing the web with ease while also completely avoiding being snooped on. But there are at least a few steps you can take to make things that little bit more secure.

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	zanhar1 said: Useful. Will probably use. I don't want the government to know that this anarchist asexual is actually a furry with lots of furry nudey pics. But in all seriousness the things I have to search up for my stories and fics are a lil' awkward even for me lol. posted over a year ago.

	ThePrincesTale said: ^Lol. I honestly don't get why they did this, at all. I can decipher the rationale, even if it's totally flawed, behind their other policies. Like, Muslim ban: "Idc how authoritarian and unconstitutional and counter-productive it actually is, imma ban citizens from 7 countries so it looks like we're tackling terrorism to people who don't know any better". Or repealing endangered species acts, gutting the EPA: "part of my virtue-signalling as a Republican is not giving a shit about the environment" But repealing laws that prevent internet providers from selling their users's sensitive data? Why? Why did almost all Republicans vote for it? Is it just that all regulations are bad, no matter how good they are? Again, I don't get it. Reminds me of link though. The Trump campaign spent millions on an extreme targeted advertising campaign that used people's sensitive data. posted over a year ago. last edited over a year ago

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