Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)
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Re: Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)
#2> Motivation: Lately due to GDPR many websites are blocking access in the EU. For me, I cannot order medicines back home via netmeds.com
Blaming GDPR for this is a bit like blaming a lead mine for getting shot. Yes, it's involved but it's not the reason. It only seems to be certain large US websites that carte-blanch refuse to serve EU visitors over GDPR, mostly those with large, tendril-filled advertising networks that have no "easy opt-out". Some sites (healthcare ones that tended to be SEO'd to the max when I searched for drug names as well as more mainstream ones like, iirc, the Washington Post) carte-blanch refuse to let you browse them without accepting unnecessary cookies; this is a direct breach of the legislation and yet they still want your traffic.
If someone won't sell you something because of GDPR -- legislation that protects your privacy, and in particular considers medical information as especially sensitive -- then you perhaps have to think rather carefully about if you wish to do business with them.
(For what it's worth, from a Danish IP, the site listed in the github repo works perfectly on my home network which admittedly contains a pihole-provided dns-level adblocking. It blocks tor and I don't have an easy way of testing it otherwise).
Re: Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)
#3Or you could just use sshuttle with far less steps: https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle
Re: Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)
#4How does this compare to Algo[1]?
Re: Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)
#5> Motivation: Lately due to GDPR many websites are blocking access in the EU. For me, I cannot order medicines back home via netmeds.com Blaming GDPR for this is a bit like blaming a lead mine for getting shot. Yes, it's involved but it's not the reason. It only seems to be certain large US websites that carte-blanch refuse to serve EU visitors over GDPR, mostly those with large, tendril-filled advertising networks t…
On the other side of this, depending on the breadth of your data, it can be non trivial to run pipelines to redact someones information. It takes man hours to verify, and processing time ($$). Plus, what if they don't have that process in place? They will need to do it manually, and take up more time from someone. Plus you need to communicate with the requestee and verify their identity as well as give them updates when they ask.
This is fine if not abused. But if a mountain of redactions came in, I could see a company just deciding it wasn't worth it to serve the EU. Not to mention the fact that there are a non-zero amount of people that will make GDPR redaction requests and hound the company down in hopes of suing them if they don't follow the law to the letter and/or can't process the redaction in time. If a company doesn't already have that process in place, it could be a momentous task to initially process.
I'm 100% for user privacy. But it can be tricky with the way the GDPR law works, so I understand why companies outside of the EU don't bother with it.
Re: Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)
#6Or you could just use sshuttle with far less steps: https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle
Agreed. You're already setting up SSH and deleting it soon so why bother setting up the IPs, adding your public key, getting the server's public key, configuring iptables, and configuring wireguard locally when you could just SSH?
Only benefit I'd see is wireguard would be easier to use on a mobile device, but the setup requires the ability to run ansible and do ssh already so... that's not really practical.
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#7> Motivation: Lately due to GDPR many websites are blocking access in the EU. For me, I cannot order medicines back home via netmeds.com Blaming GDPR for this is a bit like blaming a lead mine for getting shot. Yes, it's involved but it's not the reason. It only seems to be certain large US websites that carte-blanch refuse to serve EU visitors over GDPR, mostly those with large, tendril-filled advertising networks t…
> perhaps have to think rather carefully about if you wish to do business with them
This seems to be precisely what happened--and the thinking involved invention--a way of circumventing what prevented acquiring the needed medication. (I assume that alternatives were considered, and found wanting for one reason or another).
Re: Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)
#8How does this compare to Algo[1]? [1] https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
Love algo. hard to imagine another project comes close to the ease of setting up an algo server...
Re: Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)
#9Another cool tool to easily launch a VPN of your choice (WireGuard, OpenVPN, SSH) in a cloud provider.
I tried it out before just to test it out, it's pretty cool.
Re: Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)
#10> Motivation: Lately due to GDPR many websites are blocking access in the EU. For me, I cannot order medicines back home via netmeds.com Blaming GDPR for this is a bit like blaming a lead mine for getting shot. Yes, it's involved but it's not the reason. It only seems to be certain large US websites that carte-blanch refuse to serve EU visitors over GDPR, mostly those with large, tendril-filled advertising networks t…
Well, this reminded me of the situation right here in the US. The other day I couldn't place an online order at CVS because it was repeatedly "having technical difficulties". Turns out I had to unblock half a dozen (!) advertising domains in my Pihole (incl. the ones I've never heard of) to finally place an order. I don't know how to treat it as "I have a choice whether to do business with them" ;-)
I guess the only way to protect my privacy in this case is to risk going to the physical store with other sick people atm.