So many sites just break or do a million captchas if you use a popular VPN
In addition to not knowing if the VPN is selling your data
That's why the best solution is to host your own VPN with wire guard
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Host my own VPN, where?
What provider though? Data center IP ranges also result in lots of captchas or simply blocked sites (not sure if worse than popular VPN providers though as I have never used them).
Small time no KYC boys like lnvps and bitlaunch
nostr:npub1dd9znw7585wsam4d8p84ztdmtywwjsrayld6fzk4fvqdn5hpju4st5xe7p looks pretty good imo. Only downside pretty new and not available yet on all platforms.
Unless it’s banned on the protocol level…
nah
anonset is bad
"best solution" depends on threat model
in this case
depends if you simply dont want to site you are visiting to know your IP
or if you want to avoid targeted surveillance
Yeah, this is a great solution for some threat models and a totally shit solution for other threat models.
Blanket advice... Just ask the native Americans how much you should trust someone handing out free blankets.
not sure the metaphor holds up but I feel ya
we already know homeboy doesn't have strong privacy needs
Tortured metaphor for sure. I just like to bring up the native Americans, Japanese Americans, and Hispanic Americans often as possible to be educational to the "concentration camps couldn't happen here" Americans.
VPNs do nothing to address the browser fingerprint issue.
These days they are mostly good only for preventing your ISP from spying on your traffic and selling that data to myriad third parties.
nostr:nprofile1qqs2c0m2lct4j0mpsyz38kkf58j5f6rmnn53kf7n0wywck8m42gpf2spzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcffgkpj VPN+ offerings are worth checking out because they do solve the fingerprinting problem.