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Many people are not simply paying for an encrypted connection, they're mainly paying for a) an IP that cannot be easily attributed back to them, and b) a large
by tgsovlerkhgsel 9y ago
Many people are not simply paying for an encrypted connection, they're mainly paying for a) an IP that cannot be easily attributed back to them, and b) a large garbage can for DMCA complaints.
The Raspberry Pi provides neither of those, and requires occasional maintenance.
- aesh2Xa1 9y agoI agree, but > if your threat model is just "Open WiFi is sketchy" or "XYZ network blocks YouTube" He listed the reasons where this is useful. And it definitely is useful for those reasons. Your list is unrelated.
- walrus01 9y agoin my experience a lot of people are paying for the experience of a vpn provider that, without putting it in writing on their sign up page, basically sends DMCA abuse emails to /dev/null , and if US-based, will require a court order or subpoena to divulge subscriber details. For fully automated DMCA abuse threat emails, the cost of the manual labor (on the part of the threat-sender) is too high to individually attempt court orders or subpoenas of VPN ISPs for a particular customer, except in very exceptional circumstances.
- walterbell 9y agoHow do customers identify these providers?