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Can someone explain to me why anyone would use a consumer VPN versus SSH tunneling through to a nation with secure data privacy laws if you know what you're doi
by andrewmcwatters 5y ago
Can someone explain to me why anyone would use a consumer VPN versus SSH tunneling through to a nation with secure data privacy laws if you know what you're doing, other than convenience or the number of countries you can connect to for Netflix purposes maybe?
- tdeck 5y agoPossibly because the former option is advertised constantly and most people aren't aware of the latter.
- relax88 5y agoVPN services are cheaper than a VPS and most people just want to pirate movies without getting legal threats or to avoid region locking.
- andrewmcwatters 5y agoAre they? I can lease a VPS for under $12 a year. I don’t know of a VPN service that cheap unless it’s free and has limitations.
- is_true 5y agothat cheap? where?
- gruez 5y agoThe offerings on lowendtalk.com eg. https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/173484/guess-whos-back-did-you-miss-me-epic-dedicated-ipv4-littlevz-nat-offers-here-gullos-hosting https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/173484/guess-whos-back...
- mishafb 5y agoThat would have lower bandwidth, no easy way to switch countries, and your server IP is completely static and identifiable (worse privacy). And it's more likely to be a datacenter IP which is blocked.
- andrewmcwatters 5y agoYeah, the availability of countries and switching between several IP addresses is the only thing that I can think of.
- rPlayer6554 5y agoBecause good luck getting the average person to know what SSH is, much less how to use it.