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When we connect to a VPN server, all data that we send and receive are in encrypted form. But when data is sent from the VPN server to the destination, is the data encrypted?

If not then any hacker can sniff the packet and see the details.

Example: connecting to HTTP website using VPN.

So are we compromising privacy using VPN?

schroeder
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Rohit
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  • VPN does not replace HTTPS. However, it's more likely that an attacker can sniff your connection on *your* end than on the server's end. Luckily, HTTP is becoming a thing of the past. –  Mar 09 '21 at 22:30

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But when data is sent from the VPN server to the destination is data encrypted? ... So are we compromising with privacy using VPN?

A VPN does not compromise your privacy. Instead it reduces the privacy problems (as long as one can trust the VPN provider) but it does not fully solve these.

VPN is used to tunnel through untrusted (privacy implicating) networks and then come out with a different IP address than your original external IP. Nothing more is done. Thus if you don't trust your ISP or your local WiFi Hotspot a VPN will help to tunnel through these. If you want to hide your original IP address from the final server a VPN will help in doing this. But that's all. VPN does not make magically the connection to the final server secure - unless the VPN ends exactly at the server (usually not).

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