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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Care to elucidate?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sure, VPNs are marketed as a security measure, but for most people, the security benefits of VPNs are negligible. VPNs can be useful for hiding your browsing activity from your ISP or for appearing to be in a different country in order to access streaming services, but VPN companies make a lot of misleading claims about the security benefits of their products. For example, some VPN companies claim that their products use "military-grade encryption," but this is just a marketing term and most websites already use encryption.

Tom Scott did a pretty good video discussing this in more detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY