>I tunnel my traffic over a VPN to avoid my ISP building a profile on me.
What do you believe this profile is made of? I don't mean this sarcastically. Facebook or Equifax's profile of you must be very complete and contextual.
But, your ISP has:
- The domains you visited, but not the specific URLs (via SSL & certificate names)
- The domains you visited, but not the specific URLs (via DNS)
- The IPs you visited.
- The ports of those IPs.
- Any unencrypted traffic, which as noted, is pretty rare these days.
Do you believe that with this information your ISP can build a very meaningful profile? It seems to me that the profile which Amazon, Facebook, and a Bank, (VPN or not) can build is far more damaging. (and, I admit that just because you can't prevent the worse profiling, it doesn't mean you shouldn't mitigate what you can.)
I promise, I don't mean any of this in a negative way. I'm somewhat in your boat -- I tried to do a lot for privacy via blocking and other mitigations, but I often wonder: do Amazon and Gmail effectively defeat my efforts?
What do you believe this profile is made of? I don't mean this sarcastically. Facebook or Equifax's profile of you must be very complete and contextual.
But, your ISP has:
- The domains you visited, but not the specific URLs (via SSL & certificate names)
- The domains you visited, but not the specific URLs (via DNS)
- The IPs you visited.
- The ports of those IPs.
- Any unencrypted traffic, which as noted, is pretty rare these days.
Do you believe that with this information your ISP can build a very meaningful profile? It seems to me that the profile which Amazon, Facebook, and a Bank, (VPN or not) can build is far more damaging. (and, I admit that just because you can't prevent the worse profiling, it doesn't mean you shouldn't mitigate what you can.)
I promise, I don't mean any of this in a negative way. I'm somewhat in your boat -- I tried to do a lot for privacy via blocking and other mitigations, but I often wonder: do Amazon and Gmail effectively defeat my efforts?