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>I can't see what VPN companies are really doing inside their stack. You can always run your own VPN. Buy a cheap VPS, and set up OpenVPN to route traffic thr
by juliangoldsmith 10y ago
>I can't see what VPN companies are really doing inside their stack.
You can always run your own VPN. Buy a cheap VPS, and set up OpenVPN to route traffic through it.
- rz2k 10y agoCouldn't your VPS provider sell information about what you're accessing? I ask because, I use a cheap VPS for a VPN, but wonder if it actually accomplishes anything.
- juliangoldsmith 10y agoA VPS provider would be very unlikely to sell that sort of information. If they were caught capturing traffic, I doubt many businesses would want to use their services.
- rz2k 10y agoSome of the tiny VPS providers accept $12-20 up front for a year of service and might disappear before the year is out, but it isn't a big deal because they are so cheap. I imagine they wouldn't know how to monetize the data, but if the market matures, there could easily be the same people behind buying data from Comcast-sized ISPs, creating tiny VPS and VPN providers that don't get any meaningful scrutiny in practice.
- juliangoldsmith 10y agoIf you're serious about your privacy, the first thing you'd want to do would be to use a reputable VPS provider. $60/yr for a DigitalOcean droplet isn't terribly expensive.