Why do people use VPN service in China and what is it?

[telega]

Why do people use VPN service in China and what is it? VPN protects the Internet user's data from theft by third parties. Under such persons mean the Internet provider, administrators of public Wi-Fi networks, intruders, advertisers, etc. Think about how you would feel if someone constantly watched your behavior on the Internet, would know what you are interested in, in what social networks you communicate, would collect your portrait. In addition, it would have your contact details, passwords and all the history of your Internet traffic. Think about it, how could he use this data? An effective way to protect your data at the moment is to use a good VPN service, which would not be interested in your data and which would process all your Internet traffic in an encrypted form through itself
Why do people use VPN service in China and what is it?
VPN protects the Internet user's data from theft by third parties. Under such persons mean the Internet provider, administrators of public Wi-Fi networks, intruders, advertisers, etc.

Think about how you would feel if someone constantly watched your behavior on the Internet, would know what you are interested in, in what social networks you communicate, would collect your portrait. In addition, it would have your contact details, passwords and all the history of your Internet traffic. Think about it, how could he use this data? An effective way to protect your data at the moment is to use a good VPN service, which would not be interested in your data and which would process all your Internet traffic in an encrypted form through itself.

How can a VPN protect me if I use public Wi-Fi?
Yes, of course, using a VPN server, your Internet traffic still passes through your ISP and public network administrators, but this traffic is encrypted. When you use a VPN, an encrypted tunnel is established between you and the VPN server, so no one can listen to it. A VPN is an intermediary between you and the Internet, so no one will know what you are visiting on the Internet. All visits to external networks will come only from the VPN server, and the administrators of your networks will see only encrypted traffic, similar to a visit to a secure https site and will not be able to use it in any way.

To understand the importance of VPN, you need to think about possible cases in which it is better to use VPN, for example, in public networks in a cafe or at a train station, you connect to the Internet without any thoughts. Have you ever wondered who can give away this free Wi-Fi? Are you sure that this network is of high quality? But it can be distributed by a thief who will steal your data. Think about Bank cards and passwords, other personal information that you usually exchange online. Why after your active searches for goods or services on the Internet you suddenly call on the phone or write to the mail with an offer to buy it, although you did not give them your contacts.

Is it true that a VPN gives access to blocked sites?
Often, some sites are blocked by Internet service providers, but this is mainly due to censorship in the Internet of a certain country or area. Since VPN is an intermediary between you and the Internet, if its servers are located in another country, where this site has not been blocked, then it will have full access, since the server can visit this site.

[Artemis3]

That is not what VPN is about, that is an unintended side effect that may, or may not be not true. It depends where the vpn server is, and to whose rules it operates within.

VPN is not a means for privacy, quite the opposite if you don't set it up, you are surrendering yourself into the hands of a third party. You can in fact do worse, thinking you are "safe" and make a serious mistake.

There are better anti censorship tools designed for that purpose, such as Tor, etc.

A vpn is only a virtual "private" network. It is meant to give you "local like access" to things. Imagine your printer is in another building, you connect both the printer and the computer via vpn and within your OS, you add it as if it was in your lan. Same with sharing files, etc.

This "lan" has its own router, dns, etc. Just like a regular lan in a home or workpĺace. If the server is say, in America, it will appear as if you were there. Technically the virtual network is formed securely using cryptography, to avoid snooping by third parties.

The ISP, or State, however, can detect this. Even if they don't know the content, they know it is occurring and can even know where its going (client-server), and in the case of China, it is known they will pay you a visit, especially if you are not a foreigner.

Therefore, it is even a bad advice to talk about VPN for the Chinese context. There are better tools suited for this.

[Lottoshi]

VPN helps you relocate your IP, so the Chinese can visit websites that are under censorship or blocked in China, that being said, VPN itself has been blocked in a lot of places in China, there was a time when a certain district in Shanghai is opening up to sites like Facebook, but I don’t think that’s the case anymore.