dear anyone who uses a vpn for ”privacy” or ”security” purposes:
if you’re worried about your isp seeing your activity, why aren’t you worried about your vpn provider seeing your activity?
i mean, either way, the only thing they can see is what ip addresses you connect to
as long as you’re using tls/ssl (https), neither your isp or vpn provider can see exactly what pages you connect to or what information you send/receive to that server, just the ip address of the server itself. all the data is already encrypted, vpn or no vpn
and, no, browsing on an ”insecure” public coffee shop access point doesn’t open you up to getting your passwords stolen by the shady guy in the corner. the same encryption principles apply. the only ”insecure” part of the network is that the access point isn’t password protected, meaning anyone can connect