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If the Raspberry Pi is in your house then any site you visit (or any frames they embed or other resources they load) can still track you by IP.
by wlesieutre 9y ago
If the Raspberry Pi is in your house then any site you visit (or any frames they embed or other resources they load) can still track you by IP.
- j0hnml 9y agoPeople who go this route are likely more concerned with security than having anonymity
- wlesieutre 9y agoGiven that it's named Private Internet Access, I would think many of their customers are also concerned about privacy. If a Raspberry Pi self-hosted VPN gets you what you need, great, but it doesn't do the same things as a large VPN service where your traffic is mixed in with all the other users exiting from the same server.
- j0hnml 9y agoSorry I should’ve been more clear. I meant that people who go the route of setting up their own vpn server are more concerned with security. I think we’re on the same page, and I agree with you about the importance of privacy to PIA users.
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- InclinedPlane 9y agoThe point is to create a transparent SSH or IPsec tunnel from your home network. The raspberry pi is one endpoint of that tunnel, the VPS is the other endpoint.
- wlesieutre 9y agoAh, I see. Seems like that would still be easy to isolate a house’s VPN traffic from the typical connections coming out a server, but it takes some guesswork, protects your home IP address, and keeps your ISP from seeing what you’re doing.