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Yes, you'll be on a different network. However, the thing about Internet Service Providers (ISP) is that they provide the physical and data link layers of connectivity infrastructure regardless. All of your data is passing through their switches, which means they can capture all of the Ethernet frames they want to regardless of whether or not you're on a Virtual Private Network (VPN). By choosing to use a VPN, you can obfuscate your data somewhat, but you're also just handing it over to a second company which can also be compromised.

I know there are frame-level services out there, but again, those frames are passing through your ISP's equipment.

I might be wrong, hence the "Opinion" in the title, and I would be glad if someone were to correct me. I've been studying networking a bit over the last few years, so I think I kind of have a grasp on how it works on the various levels.

Yes, you'll be on a different network. However, the thing about Internet Service Providers (ISP) is that they provide the physical and data link layers of connectivity infrastructure regardless. All of your data is passing through their switches, which means they can capture all of the Ethernet frames they want to regardless of whether or not you're on a Virtual Private Network (VPN). By choosing to use a VPN, you can obfuscate your data somewhat, but you're also just handing it over to a second company which can also be compromised. I know there are frame-level services out there, but again, those frames are passing through your ISP's equipment. I might be wrong, hence the "Opinion" in the title, and I would be glad if someone were to correct me. I've been studying networking a bit over the last few years, so I think I kind of have a grasp on how it works on the various levels.

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[–] • 0 pt (edited )

don't use a VPN goy

allow your ISP to track literally everything you do so they can sell it goy

stop being anonymous goy

OP has literally no idea what he's talking about.

e:

I always tab enter too fast.

OP has zero clue what encryption is. Your ISP won't know about anything other than the volume of data going in and out of your Modem. That's it. They won't know which websites it's going to or have the ability to pull any meaningful information. It is literally just a random stream of 0s and 1s to them. Your VPN provider will also have zero idea what those 0s and 1s are.

ee:

Also this specific type of thread was fairly common even on voat. On fullchan before that as well.

[–] • -1 pt

You're a retard if you trust encryption when the NSA and all of the other three letter orgs already have the private keys, have had them, and will continue to have them.

[–] • 0 pt

you're a retard for trusting a mathematically proven reality

Hello moshe.

have the private keys

The ones I generate on use? Cool.

[–] • 0 pt

Self-signed certificates aren't trusted by pretty much all browsers anymore. Want to run a web server? Get a cert from one of the CAs your browser trusts, and that's not you.