Yet another reason to pay for and utilize a competent VPN?
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I need to get set up with a solid vpn and home server
You know, a relatively cheap GLINet router can run a free tier VPN from ProtonVPN. It’s a decent start. Paying supports a move towards net neutrality.
my recommendation is hiring a cheap but decent VPS from somewhere outside jurisdiction and installing wireguard on it
if you are handy with the linux shell it's easy using this:
https://github.com/angristan/wireguard-install
once you set up the one on the VPS, you can add a client, and for mobile devices it conveniently generates a QR code, which the mobile WG client can quickly add a new connection with
my experience is that less well known IP addresses don't get messed with so much by web server spam filtering systems
probably best to use tor to establish the accounts on these sites to make sure the payment servers don't tag you - the service I use has LN support via btcpay, which is pretty much anonymous as XMR would be, for those who think XMR is the bees knees, LN over tor is actually better because it doesn't leave a permanent trace on the blockchain at all
i'm not so concerned about them knowing who i am, but even still they have bogus details in their database and i'm in control of at least my part of the VPN's logging on the wireguard side
Thanks a lot for sharing this setup.
Do you think it's going to work on Open BSD?
It is not listed in the list of supported distributions.
I'm running a Bitcoin node, pruned, on Vultr, on Open BSD, for $5 a month.
I selected Open BSD for low resources needs, high security and low maintenance reasons.
If I could also try my own VPN on it, it would be nice.
Doesn’t a VPN just hide from the ISP and expose you to the VPN provider.
Best if the VPN provider can’t identify you through payment methods, but no logs is no logs.
Yep, but the ISP is much more important to shield traffic from. A no logs VPN with options for wise node and exit location choices is an excellent privacy start. A person can run TOR inside the VPN to obfuscate traffic from the VPN provider.