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It is privacy with respect to your ISP. A lot of ISPs are pretty shitty. Some will rat out their own customers to copyright mongrels and threaten to disconnect you - which is important when there's a local monopoly.

Things you connect to or log in to are clearly going to be able to ID you at least with in the context of the login that you use regardless of what the VPN does.

I'm logged into HN through Mullvad as it happens. I usually leave it on regardless of what I'm doing because what I'm doing isn't my ISP's business even though I'm pretty happy with them.

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lucb1e1mo ago

> what I'm doing isn't my ISP's business even though I'm pretty happy with them.

But it is Mullvad's?

I think I'm from a spoiled part of the internet (as in, with an ISP that legit cares) so maybe I'm biased, but swapping one vendor out for another seems relatively no-op to me. Is it that there is a bigger pool of VPN providers than ISPs available at a given address (even when including (M)VNOs), and so it's easier to find one that sounds like they care as much as the ISP should have?

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