How safe is it to setup a VPN (via Wireguard or something) with AWS?
You usually ended up in more recaptcha challenge (from form submission and cloudflare )than usual.
VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies
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Re: VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can load YouTube just fine over Tor
Why is this downvoted? It took less than 30 seconds to fire up Orbot, connect, open YouTube and start streaming a video without any issue or fuss. Sometimes when people talk about Tor, it reminds me of how people talked about Linux up until a couple years ago - often touting very out-dated impressions as if they were current observations. Tor bandwidth is very different than it was 5-10 years ago.
It's not very consistent. Sometimes you get a gateway which is great, sometimes one which is limited to 10kbps, sometimes one running some monitoring experiments which doesn't care if you get any bandwidth (I was running one for a while).
Re: VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can load YouTube just fine over Tor
Why is this downvoted? It took less than 30 seconds to fire up Orbot, connect, open YouTube and start streaming a video without any issue or fuss. Sometimes when people talk about Tor, it reminds me of how people talked about Linux up until a couple years ago - often touting very out-dated impressions as if they were current observations. Tor bandwidth is very different than it was 5-10 years ago.
Didn't downvote, still >30 seconds for getting a video playing isn't super convincing. That's far too slow for everyday use, at least for me
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#74Re: VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies
#75That is why the future is with decentralized vpns, where the blockchain is used to bring sellers and buyers of bandwidth together.
Projects like mysterium.network, sentinel.co, privatix.io,...
Re: VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies
#76Not sure if it really helps when making a choice but here's an extensive overview of 185 VPN services over 30+ factors: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#simple-vpn-comparison
The point is not to make a choice but to be informed about how the industry is somehow tied together in interesting ways. I would also add that many of these VPN services turn your machine into a drone where you knowingly or unknowingly enter into a contract so that they can sell your bandwidth to paying customers to provide them with randomized IP pools so that they can scrape amazon and alibaba.
Interesting. Given that scraping Amazon is illegal, shouldn't these companies pinpointed and sued?
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#77This post is almost surely funded by affiliate commissions paid by ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and Astrill VPN, all of which are listed as "Top VPN providers" before the article even begins. Therefore, there are some serious omissions[1] in this list.
[1] https://i0.wp.com/vpnscam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/201...
Re: VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies
#78Tinfoil hats aside, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if the NSA and other intelligence agencies around the world operated VPN service providers as a way to spy on users.
If the Snowden affair showed anything, it's that the tinfoil hat wearers were right all along - you'd have been ridiculed if you'd suggested just about anything from the Snowden files.
I still think the NSA employs Linux devs so they can deliberately insert flaws. Why would they not? It would be very easy. But every time I mention it people reply "But but many eyes! They'd get caught!"
Re: VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies
#79This post is almost surely funded by affiliate commissions paid by ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and Astrill VPN, all of which are listed as "Top VPN providers" before the article even begins. Therefore, there are some serious omissions[1] in this list. [1] https://i0.wp.com/vpnscam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/201...
Probably. So what? Doesn't make the facts of the article any less true. Just need to do research on those three companies as well independently if you want to know more.