<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>badRNG</author><text>&amp;gt;Want to do something illegal? Don&amp;#x27;t expect a VPN to save you.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not condoning piracy, but VPNs are generally a foolproof way to avoid DMCA letters from your ISP. Privacy means something different to every individual, everyone&amp;#x27;s threat model is different. And many models can benefit from a VPN; journalists, activists, and many others might find benefit from using a VPN.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>Ask yourself why you want a VPN.&lt;p&gt;Is it to avoid your ISP collecting browsing data off you and selling it?&lt;p&gt;Perhaps using 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 as your DNS might be good enough.&lt;p&gt;Is it to watch geo region blocked videos?&lt;p&gt;Then pretty much any service will work for you. Except that video streaming sites have caught on and blocked hosting provider IP blocks. 
So that might require you to shop around.&lt;p&gt;Do you want the most privacy or want to get around blocking?&lt;p&gt;Then get a VM from a provider and configure a VPN to it. 
Wireguard works fine.&lt;p&gt;Want to do something illegal?&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t expect a VPN to save you.</text></item><item><author>haunter</author><text>Every single time I start researching VPN services I end up more confused and with more questions than before because basically every vouched service has the same amount of negative comments too. Like feels like the whole sector is a honeypot (lol) of shady stuff and also they figthing against each other (or not?). So I just wait until when turns out Mullvad is also one of the bad guys.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mozilla VPN</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2020/06/18/introducing-firefox-private-network-vpns-official-product-the-mozilla-vpn/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Maximus9000</author><text>&amp;gt; Is it to avoid your ISP collecting browsing data off you and selling it?  Perhaps using 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 as your DNS might be good enough.&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#x27;t your ISP still see what IP&amp;#x27;s you are visiting?  Then, your ISP could just reverse DNS that IP to get the domain name, right?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>Ask yourself why you want a VPN.&lt;p&gt;Is it to avoid your ISP collecting browsing data off you and selling it?&lt;p&gt;Perhaps using 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 as your DNS might be good enough.&lt;p&gt;Is it to watch geo region blocked videos?&lt;p&gt;Then pretty much any service will work for you. Except that video streaming sites have caught on and blocked hosting provider IP blocks. 
So that might require you to shop around.&lt;p&gt;Do you want the most privacy or want to get around blocking?&lt;p&gt;Then get a VM from a provider and configure a VPN to it. 
Wireguard works fine.&lt;p&gt;Want to do something illegal?&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t expect a VPN to save you.</text></item><item><author>haunter</author><text>Every single time I start researching VPN services I end up more confused and with more questions than before because basically every vouched service has the same amount of negative comments too. Like feels like the whole sector is a honeypot (lol) of shady stuff and also they figthing against each other (or not?). So I just wait until when turns out Mullvad is also one of the bad guys.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mozilla VPN</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2020/06/18/introducing-firefox-private-network-vpns-official-product-the-mozilla-vpn/</url></story>