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This is odd. The primary point of VPN services (aside from a layer of protection on untrusted networks) is to mix your traffic in with N other random users such
by daxorid 9y ago
This is odd. The primary point of VPN services (aside from a layer of protection on untrusted networks) is to mix your traffic in with N other random users such that the chance of you being identified as the source of the traffic is 1/N instead of 1/1.
Hosting your own VPN exit node, with you as the sole user, defeats this use case entirely.
- seangrogg 9y agoIt's worth nothing that this may be your primary point, but that does not necessarily extend to the whole. Netflix has region-locked content that is often most easily accessed by leveraging VPNs. ISPs will have greater trouble selling off your meaningful browsing data if it's going through a VPN. And so on.
- J5892 9y agoThe only use-case I have for a VPN at the moment is to go around the inevitable throttling that will happen when net neutrality goes away (in the US). I have no reason to hide my browsing from the government. When I do (which I very much see as a possibility in the future), I will switch to something more anonymous.