The picture is slightly more nuanced. What's your exposure from browsing a web page or your mobile phone? Your IP address alone is enough for companies that use network provided APIs obtain your full billing information, location information, and more:
And having a VPN can let you do away with some of the more questionable third party tools that let you manage things at home. I could pay some cloud provided service to let me manage security cameras at home or I could have a VPN and access them like local resources and keep more of my data in-network.
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The picture is slightly more nuanced. What's your exposure from browsing a web page or your mobile phone? Your IP address alone is enough for companies that use network provided APIs obtain your full billing information, location information, and more:
https://medium.com/@philipn/want-to-see-something-crazy-open...
And having a VPN can let you do away with some of the more questionable third party tools that let you manage things at home. I could pay some cloud provided service to let me manage security cameras at home or I could have a VPN and access them like local resources and keep more of my data in-network.
Does not work if you use wifi instead of cellular.