Privacy

VPN — Why Everyone Needs It More than Ever Before

The Pros and Cons of using a VPN Software

Jenney Clark
Digital Privacy Wise
8 min readJul 2, 2020

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Will you ever say NO to an anti-virus software? Well, I thought so. Then, why would you not care to use VPN software?

We never go online without having an anti-virus software turned on. Similarly, everyone should use a VPN nowadays on all of your devices connected to the internet including your smart home devices.

In the initial days, VPN was meant for journalists, activists, and whistleblowers kind of people or it was meant for the general population to bypass the geographical restrictions. For example, you wanted to watch Netflix when you are traveling outside of the US.

When I started using a VPN, it was for the same reason actually (and also because of a few wrong reasons). I wanted to have access to my Netflix account, which I purchased in the US, but I wanted to keep watching movies when I traveled to the UK for some time. However, that didn’t work for too long, because Netflix started blocking traffic from VPN servers.

But, in the modern world, VPN has become a necessity for all of us.

In today’s connected world, privacy protection is all about controlling the data collection everywhere you go. Also, understanding the…

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Jenney Clark
Digital Privacy Wise

Jenney is an passionate technology blogger, cybersecurity enthusiast, addicted reader, Online Privacy advocate, following KISS principle (Keep it Simple Stupid)