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actually much easier than you'd think https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/how-to-build-your-ow...
Thanks for the link. let me quickly check it out
https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn
Wireguard is faster & easier to set up for mobile devices.
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I'm sure they really care about your "privacy" -- as long as they can track you and up their profits so, in total: a regular business
Any third party will behave this way. This is the behavior of businesses that need to increase their effectiveness. of course, if you want "absolute" privacy and security, NONE of these VPN companies will fit the bill
It's really not the "third parties" to blame here for the most part. You can make a viable business from selling a VPN service in exchange for money with a contractual requirement that you be respecting privacy in particular ways, so that you can actually get in trouble for not doing it.
But when Shady VPN Corp. starts offering the "same" service for "free" under a different contract because they're logging everything and selling your data, and then all the customers go over there because who doesn't like a free lunch, whose fault is that really?
Acknowledging the article lists popular VPNs with 0 trackers, as well.
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Any third party will behave this way. This is the behavior of businesses that need to increase their effectiveness. of course, if you want "absolute" privacy and security, NONE of these VPN companies will fit the bill
> Any third party will behave this way. This is the behavior of businesses that need to increase their effectiveness. It's really not the "third parties" to blame here for the most part. You can make a viable business from selling a VPN service in exchange for money with a contractual requirement that you be respecting privacy in particular ways, so that you can actually get in trouble for not doing it. But when Shad…
It really doesn't bother me if a VPN company uses trackers and other tools to optimize their own website, other than the fact that some third parties may have good reason to believe that a visitor uses a VPN if the person visited the VPN's website. That says nothing (or very little) about how private you are when actually using the VPN.