Ok, so which vpn providers are good?
I just did a bunch of research at https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN -- looks like Mullvad is the most recommended / highest rated.
VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem
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#12I think the bigger hole is DNS. Full-tunnel VPNs to primarily TLS-encrypted sites seems like overkill. Encrypted DNS plus an "HTTPS Everywhere" plugin should obfuscate enough info for most people without significantly affecting latency.
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#13The solution to all of this is educating the population. VPN tech is cheaper and more likely to succeed.
Especially if the VPN Provider is a shell company of the NSA or CIA!
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#14Ok, so which vpn providers are good?
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#15Ok, so which vpn providers are good?
thatoneprivacysite.net
On that site he has a massive spreadsheet of many if not all VPN providers and the various pros and cons.
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#16Ok, so which vpn providers are good?
I went looking for a spreadsheet I once saw, apparently it's become a website.
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#17I think the bigger hole is DNS. Full-tunnel VPNs to primarily TLS-encrypted sites seems like overkill. Encrypted DNS plus an "HTTPS Everywhere" plugin should obfuscate enough info for most people without significantly affecting latency.
The ISP can still read the SNI information to see which sites are being used, so there's not so much value in encrypting the DNS.
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#18A heads up: theres a really nice project called Streisand[1] which provides a multi-protocol VPN with very little effort. You can launch one on a cheap cloud provider (like DO, if their policy allows).
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#19I think the bigger hole is DNS. Full-tunnel VPNs to primarily TLS-encrypted sites seems like overkill. Encrypted DNS plus an "HTTPS Everywhere" plugin should obfuscate enough info for most people without significantly affecting latency.
Wouldn't it be fairly trivial to guess most of the domains you're visiting by looking at what IP addresses you connect to?
Re: VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem
#20No, they're not.
The solution is getting strong, enforced laws that protect our privacy and punish those who break them.
But for the moment, with advertisers viewing themselves as gods gift to the internet who think that all your information belongs to them simply by virtue of existing, and who will go to great lengths to acquire and store it all (for perpetuity), a solution is needed, and part of that is VPN's.