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Right. There's still something I found unsettling about performing searches without restraint on Kagi (which, until recently, absolutely required being logged i
by boneitis 1y ago
Right. There's still something I found unsettling about performing searches without restraint on Kagi (which, until recently, absolutely required being logged in) that I wouldn't have thought twice about on a common search engine.
Unfortunately, the VPN experience has been deteriorating quickly as BigCo and BigGov have been catching up in natural escalation.
- BriggyDwiggs42 1y agoThe next thing is probably a vps hosted vpn right?
- boneitis 1y agowell, given the pervasiveness of KYC requirements these days, i reckon that would still feel not unlike being required to log in in order to use a search engine. moreover, it's already fairly common for web service operators to proactively block/shadowblock swaths of VPS ranges.
- BriggyDwiggs42 1y ago>it's already fairly common for web service operators to proactively block/shadowblock swaths of VPS ranges. Ah damn. I was hoping that would be a good fallback.
- boneitis 1y agoI wouldn't call it a "good" fallback, but i do have a VPS handy with an always-on squid proxy (remember to bind only on localhost and use via ssh tunnel, or some other secure method, if anyone is going to get ideas from this comment) among the other things i use my VPS for. I do find that different subsets of services tend to get blacklisted.
- sshine 1y agoVPS’es aren’t great for running VPNs from because their IP addresses are so obviously not residential.