Likely a silly question, but having difficulty finding the answer:
If I’m connected to my VPN, is it safe to log in to accounts that are linked with personal info? Examples - Reddit, Facebook, Bank accounts, etc. If the same IP address logs into my email address and then engages in shenanigans, does that directly link me to that activity? (Via that other website, like Gmail, Facebook, Reddit, etc.)
Is it safe? Yes. It would be difficult for anyone to intercept you traffic if you’re using a good vpn.
Will you be completely anonymous? No. The instant you login to facebook, gmail, etc. They will know it’s you. Using a vpn will help you avoid mass advertising and work as a protection from criminals who try to spy on your Internet traffic, it will not make you invisible or impossible to track. Also bear in mind not all vpns are created equal and some will just sell your data outright, which is why it’s so important to find you can trust.
If you need to be more anonymous use tor and don’t use tor for anything that’s connected to your or your name like Facebook, Twitter or personal email accounts. There will always be some risk involved and using tor will not make invisible either, just keep that in mind.
Yes because those sites use https so the VPN can’t see what your login credentials are.
Without https then a VPN could see your login credentials, but without a VPN your ISP could just as easily see those credentials. At that point it’s a matter of who do you trust more.
You only need to worry about the privacy log policy. If your vpn needs do that then this means they are keeping a track of whatever you do through VPN. Normally, most of the providers dont do that, look for the policy that your VPN has.
Google are notoriously sneaky snoops, never EVER log onto ANY of their services via VPN, they geo-locate your ass no matter the IP, and will log that IP and it’s source!
I suppose I’m not concerned that my VPN will track my info. I’m concerned if I log into ABCwebsite.com which is hosted in the USA with [email protected], then with the shittiness of USA laws, that website (ABCwebsite.com) could easily have its info compromised.
I’d be interested in seeing more about how they accomplish this. Got a link or something?
This is what I am trying to explain, if your VPN does not leak data, your real identity will stay secure.
No link needed as It can be found via participation/google’s privacy policy.
I just logged into my netflix account, enabled a VPN, and started watching a movie in another IP location. In the middle of the movie I went to search something via google in another tab and came back to my movie which was promptly flagged/blocked with using a VPN as my google account has my original IP which was flagged by netflix as both are identical.
Google geolocates in order to secure your accounts against hacking, so that means if you’re logged into japan via VPN while also logged into google, and you use your email/youtube/any google site, your session will be logged/associated with that location/IP.
Your account will then flag that location/IP the next time you disconnect from the Japanese VPN/IP and will ask you to claim the VPN/IP addresses identity as it will conflict with your original IP when you originally signed up for google services.
So if you are logged into google with the IP you used to originally sign up with, they can/will track your IP using a VPN as long as you enable the VPN while simultaneously logged into any google services!
So first log off of all google/social media services before connecting to your VPN/IP!..I made a mistake and didn’t.
I just logged into my netflix account, enabled a VPN, and started watching a movie in another IP location. In the middle of the movie I went to search something via google in another tab and came back to my movie which was promptly flagged/blocked with using a VPN as my google account has my original IP which was flagged by netflix as both are identical.
It sounds like netflix detected your login from your ‘real’ IP, then you activated your VPN, which began requesting data from Netflix to your VPN IP, which would have been very far away from the one you logged in with. This could have made it easy for them to detect that you had activated a VPN. Not sure what Google had to do with it.
I agree with your conclusion, that you should log out of everything before activating your VPN, as a sudden change in IP, using the same valid credentials in the HTTP requests, certainly would look suspicious to whatever service you’re using.
It sounds like netflix detected your login from your ‘real’ IP, then you activated your VPN, which began requesting data from Netflix to your VPN IP, which would have been very far away from the one you logged in with. This could have made it easy for them to detect that you had activated a VPN. Not sure what Google had to do with it.
Yep, as well as google detected my real IP with activity to my google account…
To assume google and netflix don’t have active tracking/logging Internet traffic of it’s account holders for analytics, advertising and security to also include IP addresses is to assume incorrectly!
I am not well versed in web mastery so I am not an authority as this is pure conjecture, but I would not doubt that it works both ways as many social media sites share user info with google.