AKSHUALLY! You Should ALWAYS Use A VPN!
Not just any VPN. But the one that can defend you against traffic analysis. Only few can. Support me: https://www.patreon.com/thehatedoneI’ve been using virtual private networks ever since I started my privacy journey when Edward Snowden leaked the NSA surveillance files. The reason to use a VPN was immediately clear: the global network of intelligence agencies is spying on our phone records and Internet histories.
And they aren’t doing it by clandestine hacking operations – they get the data directly from Internet companies who collaborate with the surveillance state willingly.
It was necessary to prevent Internet companies from having immediate access to all of our records. And in a limited sense, VPNs worked. For a while.
But from the moment I started using VPNs, I realized they actually have a major flaw – a flaw that makes them not private at all. Not to mention anonymous. What’s the flaw? It’s not just a flaw. It’s an outright lie.
What the VPN companies are selling you in sponsored YouTube segments is a complete fabrication. They are making you believe that when you use a VPN you hide your traffic from the prying eyes. But you are not hiding your traffic from anyone. The VPN company sees your full traffic. And it’s impossible for them to not see it. They know who you are because they always know your IP address and they know every website you go to because they are routing your traffic for you.
Despite all of my critiques against VPNs, I never actually stopped using them. In many of my videos I actually recommend VPNs for online privacy. That sounds like I am contradicting myself and I am not even paid to do it. What is going on? Am I stupid?
Well, yes, I am. But I am also right and I know how to research and I do it better than anyone else on this scene. You will never find more deeply researched and better sourced videos on these topics than mine. I don’t just throw random links. I cross-reference and annotated everything I talk about to triple check I am correct.
So allow me to explain to you why, in 2025, you actually do need a VPN. And not just any VPN. A very small handpicked selection of VPNs that actually go beyond what anyone else in the industry offers. And because this video is not sponsored, support my work on Patreon if you like what I do.
SOURCES [references available in the transcript]
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/nsa-examines-social-networks-of-us-citizens.html
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html
[3] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/vpn-endpoint-security-clients/what-is-vpn.html
[4] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/3-companies-control-many-big-name-vpns-what-you-need-to-know/
[5] https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/guidance-mobile-communications-best-practices.pdf
[6] https://www.techradar.com/pro/vpn/over-25-billion-free-android-vpn-users-at-risk-of-data-leaks
[7] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3243734.3243768
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRU-iVSVn9o
[9] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/nsa-examines-social-networks-of-us-citizens.html
[10] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277611386_A_Model_for_Detecting_Tor_Encrypted_Traffic_using_Supervised_Machine_Learning
[11] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-kwon.pdf
[12] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10179289
[13] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3603216.3624953
[14] https://messari.io/report/understanding-nym
[15] https://mullvad.net/en/vpn/daita
[16] https://nym.com/nym-whitepaper.pdf
[17] https://safing.io/files/whitepaper/Gate17.pdf
[18] https://safing.io/spn/
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