Does getting a VPN make your ISP & other websites like Facebook watch you more closely?

Question

Does getting a VPN make your ISP and other websites (like Facebook twitter etc) watch you and your past internet activity more closely?

Answer 1

No, they don't care if you are using a VPN or not.

Answer 2

A few years ago it drew suspicion but these days everybody uses it. As an example universities all have VPN services for students and staff within the universities and they suggest students use vpns all the time especially in public WiFi.

About 5 years ago or more every time I mentioned using a VPN to someone here on Yahoo answers I would get flagged and lose ten points each time because some people thought I was trying to show people how to do something illegal. But now vpns are widely used by everyone. Even yahoo never reimburse my 10 points whenever I complained and told them I wasn't trying to teach illegal stuff back in those days

Answer 3

Your ISP will know that you are using a VPN. It is up to the ISP and the national security level as to whether they report you to the local security authorities.



Since the VPN will only go as far as its remote end - the proxy server you are using - the only way that Facebook will be aware of anything unusual is if they recognise that the IP address belongs to a proxy server. They can recognise something unusual if several people with different FB accounts and supposedly different locations all appear to be connecting from the same IP address - the address of the proxy.



Some sites already recognise when a proxy server is in use, and block connections from those servers.



When you say VPN and Facebook in the same sentence, then you are talking about a connection via a proxy server and the link between your computer and the proxy is encrypted (by the VPN); however, the ongoing link from the proxy to Facebook is not protected by the VPN as it is no longer being carried over the VPN, which ended at the proxy.



I hope this helps.

Answer 4

No.



Facebook doesn't care and your ISP has better things to do.

Answer 5

Nah, not unless they have a good reason to.

Answer 6

No because nobody knows that you have a VPN except you