When the topic of VPN comes up, there are often posts which criticize the use of a VPN for the use case of privacy. These posts are often absolutist in nature and fail to address specific threat models. Of course a VPN isn't going to protect your privacy from state level actors - I doubt that it is possible anyway. Why I use a VPN: 1. I don't want many of the sites I browse to know my IP. 2. My US ISP corrupted my go…
All of this can be achieved through a person VPN rather than a commercial subscription one by ssh -D whateverPort user@ip_address and setting up a SOCKS proxy in Firefox on that same port. >there are often posts which criticize the use of a VPN Often they specifically critique the likes of NordVPN etc. The off the shelf solutions rather than personally setup VPNs. What disgusts me is that they charge fees that are mu…
That's the great, albiet unfortunate, value of retail VPNs; other people are using them and your traffic mixed with theirs. Being a totally anonymous but unique individual is less valuable in today's marketing morass is less valuable than being one of many in a VPNs IP space.