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Lots of use cases aren't covered by a self-hosted VPN. Public VPN servers allow you to blend in with other traffic coming from a shared IP giving you plausible
by thekyle 6y ago
Lots of use cases aren't covered by a self-hosted VPN. Public VPN servers allow you to blend in with other traffic coming from a shared IP giving you plausible deniability for things like piracy.
- jolux 6y agoMy use case is not piracy.
- arsome 6y agoA few other major use cases I've used them for: - Scraping, when my scraper gets blocked from the real estate site, wallpaper site, etc, I click next IP, change my UA and I'm ready to go for another round. You can play cat and mouse all day without worrying about all your IPs getting banned. - Avoiding DDoS attacks, if you're doing something that makes you likely to become the victim of a DDoS attack, like say, joining a script kiddie's botnet IRC server, not giving a crap if your public IP gets dropped is pretty handy. - GeoIP bypasses, allows you to work around everything from region locked content to discriminatory pricing - Country-wide and default blockades, many countries censor the internet only in minor and weak ways, blocking things like BitTorrent tracker websites by domain or IP that commercial VPNs will trivially bypass
- judge2020 6y agoAn legitimate users still wonder why using a VPN makes the internet harder to use in terms of being on blacklists and having low IP reputation.