Six articles to get you from "what's a VPN?" to genuinely understanding what one does and when you need it. No condescension, no marketing.
Plain-English definition. What it does, what it doesn't. ~1000 words.
Read →The actual flow: client → encrypt → tunnel → server → internet. With diagrams.
Read →Both route traffic, but they're different tools for different problems.
Read →Remote-access, site-to-site, personal, cloud. When each makes sense.
Read →When the free tier is enough, when paid is worth the money, and how each is funded.
Read →The "tunnel" metaphor explained. Encapsulation, modes, what actually happens to your packets.
Read →Total reading time: ~30 minutes if you go through all six. You can skip around — they're written to stand alone.
Once you've got the basics, the other categories build on them:
Coming soon. The honest version of "does a VPN make you anonymous?"
Coming soon. DNS leaks, WebRTC leaks, MITM, public WiFi threats.
Coming soon. WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, all the under-the-hood details.
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