some random questions

[rama]

Hello, I have some random questions.

1. Lets suppose I use on my Laptop and I use PerfectPrivacy on my iPhone.
Now I connect my Laptop (with VPN of VPN-Provider2 switched on) to my iPhone as a Hotspot. My iPhone uses PerfectPrivacy to connect.

I am sure that the IP-Address of VPN-Provider2 is visible. And VPN-Provider2 does not know my real IP address, because they only know the IP Address of PerfectPrivacy. Is this correct?

Illustrated:
ME ---- PerfectPrivacy ---- VPN-Provider2 ---- Internet-Website

If only one of the both VPN-Provider do Log IP-Addresses I am still save that the Internet-Website cannot reveal my real IP-Address, isn't it?


3. If I don't use VPN and I am surfing on pornhub website (https), dies my Internet Provider know which URLs I have visited?


4. If I use Google Search Engine to search some critical content. How can police find out what I have searching on Google (without knowing my computers password, not knowing my search history on browser). I heared that police found out what people were searching on Google. Does Google give police infos of their users?


5. Does PerfectPrivacy really not log our real IP-Addresses even when PerfectPrivacy is asked to track/log a single user?
I am asking this, because so many VPN-Providers make advertisement having a NoLogPolicy but its a lie and they do log single users (even ProtonMail logs single users if police asks them)

 

[Lenzinth]

1. No, that's not right. With a personal hotspot on iPhone, the VPN connection is not shared, only the ability to access the Internet with the IP address you are assigned by the provider.
2. does not apply, see 1.
3. Depends on the law and the provider. In any case, the provider is able to see which IP addresses were accessed. In most private use cases, this allows conclusions to be drawn about the hosted service.
4. A VPN provider is not a solution for everything. Just because you use a VPN service doesn't mean you aren't traceable. There are many other ways to make you identifiable. You will find some websites with explanations about this, e.g. privacytools.io
5. No one can confirm or deny that. The service is not transparent, the applications are closed source. When you use the service, you trust what the service advertises about itself on the website.