데브허브 | DEVHUB | Your Privacy VPN Is LYING About Where Your Traffic Goes!
Think your VPN is actually routing through Switzerland, Germany, or the Bahamas? Think again. In a shocking investigation that tested over 150,000 VPN servers across 20 major providers, researchers discovered that 17 out of 20 VPNs are lying about where your traffic really goes. That "exotic" server location you selected? It's probably just a virtual label masking traffic that's actually routing through the same old data centres in Miami, London, or Frankfurt thousands of miles away from where you think you are.
We're talking about providers advertising "100+ countries" while secretly funnelling your data through a handful of physical locations, completely undermining the privacy and access benefits you're paying for. This isn't just a technical glitch, it's a massive deception that could be putting your data at risk and making you believe you're protected when you're not.
🔗 Relevant Links
IPinfo article - https://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-m...
IPinfo Probe Network - https://ipinfo.io/blog/probe-network-...
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📌 Chapters:
00:00 - VPN Companies Have Been Lying
00:34 - Your VPN Traffic isn't what you think
00:55 - How VPNs SHOULD route your data
01:20 - What is ACTUALLY happening
01:49 - How IPinfo got this data with ProbeNet
03:05 - What are Virtual Locations?
04:06 - Are VPNs Less Secure
