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This is incredibly bad advice. Opera has the worst security track record of every other major browser, and clicking that ad blocker button routes all your traff
by dguido 10y ago
This is incredibly bad advice. Opera has the worst security track record of every other major browser, and clicking that ad blocker button routes all your traffic through a single endpoint at a Chinese-owned company. Hello surveillance! Even the routers... haven't there been enough remotely exploitable flaws in those archaic router vendors to recommend against using them at this point? You might get a VPN in name but you'll get none of the security that comes with them that way.
You should setup your own personal VPN server if you can. We wrote Algo VPN, a set of ansible scripts that automates the process as much as possible. It contains the most secure defaults available, works with common cloud providers, and does not require client software on most devices.
https://github.com/trailofbits/algo https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
- bubblethink 10y ago>Does not install Tor, OpenVPN, or other risky servers Can you explain how ipsec differs from openvpn ? All the major vpn providers seem to use openvpn right now.
- dguido 10y agoYes! We cover that in the FAQ in detail: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md#5-why-arent-you-using-openvpn https://github.com/trailofbits/algo/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md#...
- isubkhankulov 10y agothank you guys! I installed Algo on AWS EC2 last week. easiest set up ever using your ansible scripts. any ideas on how to get around Netflix's block? use a different VPS provider?
- dguido 10y agoYes, choice of VPS provider matters if that's what you're going for. I would bet that Netflix has a fairly complete inventory of all the IP addresses that Amazon owns at this point...