• kadu@lemmy.world
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    Which is why VPN services that actually want to honor their claims, but also not have legal trouble, usually cost more to justify investing in infrastructure that actually allows for both of these things to be true.

    ExpressVPN, for instance, migrated every single server to be entirely held on RAM. Your session ends, that data is gone. So if they are forced by a govermental body to provide your data, they can comply, but the only data they’ll have is whatever you typed in to create an account and pay for it.

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      1 year ago

      After looking it up, apparently private internet access also stores everything in ram. Thats pretty intresting and a very clever way to avoid giving logs to anyone. Thanks for sharing.

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    This is why you go with vpns that don’t keep traffic records. They’ll certainly respond to subpoenas, but if they don’t keep any information on your activities, the response will not be useful.

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      Abortions. In some states its illegal and in some its legal. Its also legal in those states to spy on their citizens to make sure they are not looking up that sort of info.

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      I’ve definitely seen “Distributes Child Pornography” in this list created by other people on my VPN… So maybe that?

      Personally I hope the VPN flips on them.