Honest question - Would self hosting a VPN (for the purpose of bypassing your ISP) even do anything? The end point would still need an ISP (that you’ve signed up for) and would be just as exposed as you are from your original connection, right?
The privacy you get from a VPN service is mainly from mixing your traffic with many other users and not keeping logs. No one knows for sure who visited which site.
If you self host a VPN, that protects you from your own ISP, and the sites you visit will not get your real IP, but your server host still knows what’s going on.
I don’t think this argument is valid in a world where a global observer can already distinguish Tor traffic using timing and volume analysis.
Today, the best defense a VPN has to offer, privacy-wise, is protection against observers close to the victim, on hostile local network. Self-hosted VPNs can do that as well as any paying VPN service. The only reason I’m using a paying service myself is to circumvent geo restrictions. That’s basically the only valid use-case.
Honest question - Would self hosting a VPN (for the purpose of bypassing your ISP) even do anything? The end point would still need an ISP (that you’ve signed up for) and would be just as exposed as you are from your original connection, right?
The privacy you get from a VPN service is mainly from mixing your traffic with many other users and not keeping logs. No one knows for sure who visited which site.
If you self host a VPN, that protects you from your own ISP, and the sites you visit will not get your real IP, but your server host still knows what’s going on.
I don’t think this argument is valid in a world where a global observer can already distinguish Tor traffic using timing and volume analysis.
Today, the best defense a VPN has to offer, privacy-wise, is protection against observers close to the victim, on hostile local network. Self-hosted VPNs can do that as well as any paying VPN service. The only reason I’m using a paying service myself is to circumvent geo restrictions. That’s basically the only valid use-case.
vpn or searx [and sometimes]… Tor, are all not 100% perfect but they make identification more difficult and less certain.
Thanks!
This, assuming you self-host the other-host way, that is, hiring a vps and alike. Don’t centralize the internet to commercial data-centers yet, please
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