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>Main use case is for using public WiFi when travelling Your own VPN is the correct answer. If you have a fast enough symmetric link at home then just run a sm
by xoa 7y ago
>Main use case is for using public WiFi when travelling
Your own VPN is the correct answer. If you have a fast enough symmetric link at home then just run a small machine there (or your router/sec appliance may support it) or else get a ~$5 VPS from OVH/DigitalOcean/Scaleway/Amazon/Google/MS or whomever you like and run WireGuard on it. Or if you want something more turnkey with IKEv2 support (if you have devices that can't use WG) then check out Algo [1].
But there is likely no need for or reason to use a "VPN provider" if all you're looking to do is shift your virtual entry point to the internet from the edge, and lots of good reasons not to. The only real exception would be if latency is a major concern, you travel very widely and don't want to deal with any extra hassle setting up a solution to move between regions. In that case might be worth keeping an eye on CloudFlare's "Warp" solution [2], which will probably be about as good as it gets in that regard since they've got infrastructure worldwide and will be able to route well.
But I'd definitely suggest checking out running WG (alone of via Algo) yourself. It really is straight forward.
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1: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
2: https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/
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- knd775 7y agoOne of my main use cases for a VPN is appearing from different countries. I also anonymize my traffic. If I own the VPS, that traffic can be tracked to my quite easily. I use a VPN for these things a couple times a week. I can (and do) use my own VPN just to secure my traffic on untrusted networks, but there's more to it that just that.