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How safe is it to setup a VPN (via Wireguard or something) with AWS?
How safe is it to setup a VPN (via Wireguard or something) with AWS?
i can't speak to the safety, but i think you'll find browsing with an AWS IP to be a frustrating experience. Many sites block traffic from known AWS IP ranges in an attempt to prevent scraping or abuse.
Nearly as disturbing as the number of people who tell me they use free VPNs. It is a bit mind boggling that folks are concerned about something and use a VPN...but choose a free one...
This is absolutely not an apples to apples comparison, but why is it outrageous to believe there couldn't be a free VPN that focuses on privacy when there are search engines like Duckduckgo and browsers like Firefox that are completely free and are pro-privacy? I haven't done the research, so consider it a rhetorical question.
How safe is it to setup a VPN (via Wireguard or something) with AWS?
- Preventing websites from seeing your true IP? (you'll want to disable webrtc as well[1].) Mostly yes.
- preventing your ISP from spying on your traffic? (allowing Amazon to spy on your traffic in exchange...) Yes.
- Avoiding risk of legal threats if you engage in copyright infringement? Mostly no. They can subpoena Amazon instead of your ISP, and your lightsail/EC2 ip isn't shared.
Routing through a vpn, whether it's a commercial one or through AWS, linode, digitalocean, etc. will get you blocked on far more sites, because it's more difficult to identify individual clients, and there's more fraud and bot activity on any kind of vps or vpn netblock than there is on typical residential netblocks.
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Prevent-WebRTC-from-l...
Nearly as disturbing as the number of people who tell me they use free VPNs. It is a bit mind boggling that folks are concerned about something and use a VPN...but choose a free one...
How safe is it to setup a VPN (via Wireguard or something) with AWS?
Safe? Against what? - Preventing websites from seeing your true IP? (you'll want to disable webrtc as well[1].) Mostly yes. - preventing your ISP from spying on your traffic? (allowing Amazon to spy on your traffic in exchange...) Yes. - Avoiding risk of legal threats if you engage in copyright infringement? Mostly no. They can subpoena Amazon instead of your ISP, and your lightsail/EC2 ip isn't shared. Routing throu…
Nearly as disturbing as the number of people who tell me they use free VPNs. It is a bit mind boggling that folks are concerned about something and use a VPN...but choose a free one...
Yes, a more secure and practical alternative to "VPN services" is the Tor network, which externalizes the cost of infrastructure to volunteers and thus reduces the risk inherent with centralized control. While Tor is also not without risk, I really wish more privacy oriented services and software had decentralization as a core tenet of their design.
Nearly as disturbing as the number of people who tell me they use free VPNs. It is a bit mind boggling that folks are concerned about something and use a VPN...but choose a free one...
> Nearly as disturbing as the number of people who tell me they use free VPNs. This is absolutely not an apples to apples comparison, but why is it outrageous to believe there couldn't be a free VPN that focuses on privacy when there are search engines like Duckduckgo and browsers like Firefox that are completely free and are pro-privacy? I haven't done the research, so consider it a rhetorical question.
A VPN on the other hand consists of an application and usually unmetered usage of the company's bandwidth, which costs money.