all public Wi-Fi networks are just, you know, traps that are there to just destroy them.
And there is a grain of truth to it, especially back in the day, like back in 2015, HTTPS wasn't
as common, which is going to guarantee that the traffic between you and the sites that you're
accessing is actually kept between you two. And so it was possible for networks to access that.
But now every site uses HTTPS for the most part. And that does kind of kill that whole
packet sniffing story from back in 2015. But there are still some things that do leak to
your network that are still very much a real thing in 2026. So you have things like your
DNS queries, SNI is also something that's kind of leaked there. And a network operator can still
see every domain you access. So you are trusting that network provider with quite a lot of things.
And at the end of the day, if somebody has malicious things in mind on that network,
they can still do a lot to, to harm that connection. So it's, there's reasons to be,
I think legitimately concerned. And there's reasons that aren't maybe as dramatic as
they're shared online. Now, I think the easiest solution for a lot of people,
yeah, is a VPN. I don't think that for many people are going to gain like instant security
that's typically advertised with a VPN provider, but it is going to shift the trust away
from your ISP to a VPN company. It's not going to eliminate trust, but it is going to do things
that is going to help guarantee that. Like when you have audits, you have a company
that's dedicated to privacy. Worst case, you're going to end up where you started,
but best case, they're probably protecting your privacy better. You can do things
like encrypted DNS. You can use firewalls and you can also use your VPN altogether.