Yes! In fact ISPs can use fingerprinting techniques to match websites with known data transmission patterns (ping, badwidth, packet timing, etc) to guess what websites you might be accessing even through an encrypted vpn. Some vpns (like mullvad and probably others) will throw in false data packets to thwart this type of fingerprinting.
Your ISP will be able to see the usage, and will almost certainly be able to tell that it is VPN usage. They won’t be able to tell what you’re doing or where you’re truly connecting to, just that you transferred whatever quantity of encrypted data with the VPN company at whatever time.
They won’t be able to tell what you’re doing or where you’re truly connecting to…
I mean, they technically can. There are really simple tools that allow doing this.
That would be for analysing traffic not using a VPN?
Yeah, I remember some case where a college student was caught while using the school’s network because they new the times and filesizes of something. I don’t remember the exact details though.
Yes but as far as they know, you could be a netflix paying simp who watching more and more shit.
DNS over HTTPS is for security and not privacy. Your ISP can still see what websites you visit.
Yes, use any other DNS other than your provider. Adgaurd at minimum, PI hole with advanced lists is better. Both even better.
I agree using something like Cloudflare or Quad9 is better then not using it at all, and making sure to turn on DNS over HTTPS is massive benefit. But as shown in my previous linked video even with this turned on a ISP can see/snoop DNS queries.
A VPN would help obscure website you visit through the VPN, but your ISP would still see the connection to the VPN’s IP address.
Though now comes the question of how much you trust that particular VPN.
True. It’s a lesser of two evils … Comcast vs Proton though, no brainer.
Yes. VPN still uses your data, more of it in fact because encrypted secure tunnel files are generally larger than the original data and also cached data on the ISP network are no longer called, so more goes to the greater internet.
