The Internet becoming increasingly dangerous, cyber attacks that eliminate the concept of privacy, viruses, trojans, bans and many similar problems have started to direct end users towards VPNs. Many users, especially united under the concept of freedom on the Internet, tend towards VPNs in communities. We have begun to see that even many high school students who have just stepped onto the Internet are knowledgeable about VPNs. The reasons that push end users to use VPN can be listed as follows.
- Prohibitions and restrictions: In many countries of the world, including our country, and even in many regions, including Europe, we may be faced with the restrictions and prohibitions of the governments. Such restrictions can lead many users to VPNs in the name of circumventing bans or bypassing internet censorship. Since VPN technology encrypts all your traffic along with your DNS requests, it can prevent the tracking of governments or intelligence services. Regardless of who is interfering or who wants to watch you, by getting a VPN service, you can connect to the internet through a server in any country in the world and access banned sites such as Wikipedia.
- Private networks such as Torrent or Tor: We see that Torrent and similar networks are banned in many countries. People who want to download illegal content such as music or movies via torrent can choose to use a VPN to bypass these bans.
- Fear of secrecy and tracking paranoia: It is revealed that many countries, especially the USA, have established special monitoring structures for intelligence services in many scandals such as Wikileaks. At this point, we can see that end users have started to use VPNs due to privacy and privacy concerns on the internet.