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If the reason you are using a VPN is to avoid potentially untrustworthy middlemen, sure. But if you are after the privacy benefits of sharing an IP address with
by calcifer 7y ago
If the reason you are using a VPN is to avoid potentially untrustworthy middlemen, sure. But if you are after the privacy benefits of sharing an IP address with thousands, then a self hosted VPN won't help you.
- manquer 7y agoWhy not ? Unless your instance has a reservation of public IP you are sharing the outbound IP with thousands of other traffic. The actual problem with such setups and VPNs is the constant captcha because you are not using a residential IP range
- calcifer 7y ago> Unless your instance has a reservation of public IP you are sharing the outbound IP with thousands of other traffic On which cloud provider do you share an outbound IP with others? AWS, Linode and Digital Ocean all assign a public IP per instance.
- judge2020 7y agoTo add: with my own DigitalOcean VPN I rarely see captchas, but some sites block that ASN (like crunchyroll).