FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service

Post by Fnoord » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 10:38 AM UTC

samcolvin wrote: post #67

core-questions wrote: post #26

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SEO companies are big customers of products like this. Scraping Google at scale requires a huge budget for proxies and IP blocks, and I believe they apply ML to detect people abusing their service.

I can confirm that, scraping Google instantly needs huge effort and money. In our best we can scrape 2500 SERP per IP. But i must say using proxy services and other things did not helped us much. Because most of them were banned before we use.

Post by q3k » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 11:28 AM UTC

ian-bateman wrote: post #84

coddle-hark wrote: post #79

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Thanks! > We're working on a way to disallow users from acting as exits for certain kinds of traffic - so you'll be able to categorically block certain kinds of sites through the UI in the near future. How does this stop someone posting ISIS propaganda to Twitter? Or uploading CP to Google Drive? > Even with DoH on by default in the browser, we can still override / specify a DNS server. Can you? Browsers don’t respec…

Posted a bit about how we plan to approach this above, so just re-pasting: > - we plan to build in something similar to HTTPS Everywhere to the product, to automatically upgrade connections (and we only route traffic on ports 80 / 443 (optionally 53)). - we also plan to build in the ability to allow peers to block certain categories of traffic from going over their connection (using blocklists similar to those used b…

Post by samwhiteUK » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 11:40 AM UTC

bearburger wrote: post #97

_znkz wrote: post #43

This is all very unexpected actually! (No one from FreeVPN made the post here!) We've been doing some early market testing in a few Linux communities on Reddit, but full disclosure, the product is currently in an early-alpha stage (it’s only available on Ubuntu and Gentoo Linux currently, and very much under construction). We have big ambitions for the project, but it is still very early days. Love hearing the feedba…

Hello, Ian "Every user is exit node" concept in addition to legal question raises more practical questions. What are you going to do if majority for your users (and when you call something "free" the chance increases) will be from countries like China, Russia, Iran and other where government controls and blocks a lot of the websites and services? And I'm talking not about surveillance but about actual block of the IP…

Post by m-p-3 » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 11:50 AM UTC

FreshFries wrote: post #106

For people who are even considering this as a nice service: setup a tor exit node and let it run for a week or so (takes time before it will actually route traffic through your new node) and experience the no more Netflix, captchas left and right and possible issues with your ISP & local law enforcement. If you for a minute think this / your IP address will not be misused to scrape, grief, DDoS, up & download "questi…

Post by jsilence » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 12:31 PM UTC

anderspitman wrote: post #22

woodruffw wrote: post #17

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Some other sketchy bits, from a very quick perusal: * Shelling out[1] to some tool that may be responsible for all of the heavy networking bits[2] * Falling back on a non-monotonic clock but calling it monotonic[3] * Another sketchy shellout[4] that calls a bunch of scripts with trivial interpolation/injection bugs[5]. It's not clear if the arguments passed to those scripts are remotely controllable, but it's sketchy…

To be fair, ZeroTier isn't just "some tool". It has a solid reputation. The founder (api) is actually here in the thread.