I know nothing about VPNs and have never used one. I keep getting those alerts from Chase about something or other of my personal info showed up on the dark web. I say “keep” but maybe I should say it happens every 6 months or so. Anyway is that what a VPN is for is protecting passwords and any other info anyone could steal?
Countries in like the US and UK store everything you look at on the internet. A VPN prevents this
Thank you for this detailed response and I understand better now. One thing I absolutely never do is click on weird links but one thing I do is use the same or similar passwords often so I guess I need to work on that and thanks again.
It may also be useful to use multiple email addresses; one for personal/private, one for online services, one for email receipts etc. etc. This can help reduce a takeover by said email address only being tied to X Y or Z, instead of everything.
I personally bought a domain and used a mail system that allows wildcard addresses to that domain (anyaddressiwant@saiddomain) and it all goes to one inbox. That way I can give an email out to each service or site, unique ones, too. That way if you start getting dodgy emails on ome, you know which company or service leaked it.