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There's a lot of advice floating around the privacy and security space, but how much of it is true? Watch out for these potential pitfalls when you're evaluating claims!
2. "You can increase privacy by simply trusting someone else"
We talk about "shifting trust" from one party to another a lot when discussing solutions like VPNs (which shift the trust you place in your ISP to the VPN provider). While this protects your browsing data from your ISP specifically, the VPN provider you choose still has access to your browsing data: Your data isn't completely secured from all parties. This means that:
- You must exercise caution when choosing a provider to shift trust to.
- You should still use other techniques, like E2EE, to protect your data completely. Merely distrusting one provider to trust another is not securing your data.