The Practical Guide To Mac Security: Part 7, VPN 

This is one of the clearest, briefest, and most fact-based discussions of VPN that is available. Excellent!

Best explanation of VPN

Thanks Gary. Another easy to understand explanation. Love your channel

Gary. Thank you for all the information. 🌻

Yes, another easy to understand video on computer security (even for me). I look forward to repeat viewing and seeing if and when you get into more sophisticated analysis and techniques such as actual anonymity (impossible by nerd friends say), PGP, Onion/Tor etc. PGP is another one - I was never able to get into using it because I found it so complicated. But you know, James Bond level stuff.

Great video!

Thank you

I am glad I found your tutorials. You mention the benefit of HTTPS websites and SSL, and claim that most websites are HTTPS, however there are many un-secure HTTP sites out there and I can not tell what kind of a site I am communicating with when I click on a site like "Details that surfaced after Charley Watt's Death," shown to the right of this lesson, a site I plan on looking at. I also click onto pop up advertisements when I am studying food. I would like to know if these sights have to be SSL HTPPS sites if they are reached after first logging into a SSL or HTPPS site and if not how can I tell the status of such sites or sites like your video "Using a flash drive for the first time," when I found it by searching for "How to use a flash drive," but the video link did not identify the web address of your website?

Hello i keep following you sir😊

This is one of your best videos because the subject is security is so important. Now the big question is which of the many VPN providers are the best of the best and offer good value for the user.

Very informative …..😉😉😉

I do not have a Google account but I use my computer for work and for work, I do have a Google account and use Google Chrome. Would it help to create a separate user on my Mac for work just to isolate Google into that user and have nothing to do with Google in my personal user account? Thank you for the answer!

I'm using AirVPN, very good service and open source client (or you can use OpenVPN client too).

Can a VPN allow certain web sites to bypass the VPN. In my cases I use many wifi appliances for testing but the company needs to look at the device but the VPN will not allow them to access the devices. i.e. Arlo, Ecobee, Eufy, NeatRobotics, etc etc. Can the VPN be configured to allow normal traffic info back to the company that I am testing without turning off and on the VPN?

If I'm away on a trip for weeks at a time and I need to check my financial accounts at different institutions, but I don't have a VPN, is it safe to use the hotel's wifi (or coffee shop's wifi, or whatever else) to connect to the different banks and or other financial accounts from a browser on my MBP? Or maybe I should ask, if I haven't got a VPN, then how do I know when it isn't safe for me to perform those kinds of necessary activities on my MBP?

Would the VPN be helpful in accessing certain USA pay sites from overseas? I’ve tried to pay some bills and gotten a “Forbidden” error.

I hotspot to my iPhone when at hotels or coffee shops mostly because their internet speeds are terrible. Any concern of data being spied on? I would assume it just follows your cellular provider privacy?

Ive been using Cisco AnyConnect, but I can’t tell if it is working, would you use it?

With my VPN, in the settings i have it switched to "Run at Startup" but it never does, ive tested it with the wifi still on after i shut down the computer but upon starting up the computer, the wifi is connected automatically but the VPN remains off until i manually turn it on, but i have to wait for like 5 seconds before i click the VPN button and then it takes another 5 seconds before it connects. very annoying. Is there any way to get around that on the Mac or is it to do with the VPN companies themselves? i use bitdefender VPN

If your wifi was turned off when you shut down your computer (coz some people recommend turning off your wifi if not using it), then you turned your computer back on again, how would your VPN launch on system startup? what would enable VPN to connect to the wifi automatically, if the wifi was already turned off? Would you then need to connect to the wifi manually and then the VPN will start automatically?

I find the ways to keep us safe are most important. I may not understand it all, but I’m getting better! Another awesome video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary! 👍🏻👏❤️

Do you still use PIA as a VPN? I do not see it in the App store-I would like to use this on MacOS Venture & iPads

If a wifi is weak and your VPN keeps dropping in and out of the wifi, lets say for a minute your VPN cannot be connected, would that be enough time for hackers to get into your computer through the wifi and do some damage?

You missed a major benefit of using a VPN, and that is for geolocation. I speak English but live in Mexico for most of the year. Unless I want my web searches to come back in Spanish, I have to use a VPN (using a server in the US or Canada)... and it doesn't matter if I set my language as English for the web browser. I use Yahoo as my home page, but unless I use a VPN server in the US, I can't get the US Yahoo homepage to load! Only the Mexican (Spanish) Yahoo site will load. The US Walmart web site is completely inaccessible from Mexico, to see it I have to use a VPN server located in the US. Regarding watching content with Apple TV, I can't watch a lot of programming in English unless I use a VPN. Here on RU-vid, most, if not all ads will play in Spanish unless I use a VPN server in the US or Canada. A lot of Canadian sports videos are blocked off unless you are in Canada... but I get around that restriction when I use a VPN with a server in Canada. This geolocation thing is a huge deal, and I could go on and on.... I think you should redo your video on this.

I dislike private telcos spying on me and selling my data. I dislike governments spying on me. That’s why I use a VPN. Principal.

How can I configure my VPN to be used by 2 users on one Mac? My VPN disconnects when switching users, and when I try to log in on the second user screen, it messes up my configurations… 😢one user is for my personal, one is for my work

I no longer use VPN its expensive and overrated but the last I used was Proton VPN the best of the best

iCloud+ users will soon have access to a VPN-like service, with no additional charge. Il will not be a fullblown VPN, mind you.

But it’s easy to create a https company … ???? (You could fake WHOIS) …

This is a very long document, but very informational if you are looking at singing up with a VPN company. digital-lab-wp.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/VPN-White-Paper.pdf