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I'm a big VPN user since I am the citizen of one country and the resident of another. Even for government services I have to use a VPN. I tried to access the bu
by systemtest 10mo ago
I'm a big VPN user since I am the citizen of one country and the resident of another. Even for government services I have to use a VPN. I tried to access the bureau of statistics of my home country through my foreign residential IP and got 404s on all pages. Enabled VPN and everything magically started working. For watching the election result video stream I also had to VPN but at least that one gave me a clear message. For doing taxes in my home country I then have to disable VPN since all VPN access is blocked but it's OK to use a foreign residential IP.
I would easily pay €30 a month for a VPN in my home country that uses a residential IP and isn't noticeable. I am aware that those exist, but 99% of them are shady.
- simlevesque 10mo ago> I would easily pay €30 a month for a VPN in my home country that uses a residential IP and isn't noticeable. I am aware that those exist, but 99% of them are shady. For residential IPs you can't even pay per month like normal VPNs, normally they charge per GB, usually over $2 usd per GB.
- nemomarx 10mo agoIs this be cause they're paying the residential proxy owners some of it?
- aryonoco 10mo agoI can assure you they are not.
- bakugo 10mo agoMost of the people whose devices and connections are being used as residential proxy exit nodes are not aware of it. They likely charge per GB because these residential connections are slow and limited compared to datacenter connections (doesn't help that they're often located in third world countries), and are often used for aggressive scraping, so charging a fixed monthly price would not be viable.
- h33t-l4x0r 10mo agoProbably safe to assume that yours is. Especially if a teenager is using your wifi.
- Scoundreller 10mo agoDamn, I’m throwing away hundreds of dollars per month. And I can get a semi-anonymous cable internet connection too (if your line is “hot”, you could sign up with any address… not sure if it has to be under the same node or just the same city). Would be difficult, but not impossible, to track down which residence the shadow connection is coming from.
- whatevermom2 10mo agoPrices are more in the 0.30$-0.45$ range if you know where to go, from my experience.
- Footprint0521 10mo agoWhere do you go?
- chmod775 10mo agoDo you know anyone in that country who will let you stick an rPI behind their modem?
- systemtest 10mo agoI have been thinking about it but it is tricky from a legal standpoint. What I'm trying to arrange next time I visit is to have a secondary line installed at my parents place that is in my name. So that when I pull heavy traffic from that line it doesn't impact them and I can't get them in trouble for posting a message that isn't government approved.
- xandrius 10mo agoHeavy traffic to access a bunch of gov websites? There's definitely more to your story then. I'd say, anything heavy and random, use the general VPN and the rest use an rpi at your parents' home.
- Aurornis 10mo ago> Heavy traffic to access a bunch of gov websites? There's definitely more to your story then They used government websites as an example, not to say that all of their traffic was to government websites.
- JSR_FDED 10mo agoNo it’s his parents who don’t want him interfering with their thriving warez empire
- systemtest 10mo agoI don’t do FXP anymore :)
- inemesitaffia 10mo agoVideo. Live video
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- devilbunny 10mo agoDo you have friends or family in your home country that will run an AppleTV box with Tailscale for you as an exit node? I can't get into work from a non-US IP, but I can Tailscale back to my house and it works just fine. I even gave my in-laws (who live several states away) an AppleTV box running TS just to have another endpoint if for some reason the power goes out at my house while I'm gone (rare, but happens).
- ggrantrowberry 10mo agoWhat is this AppleTV box running TS that you speak of? Sounds awesome.
- ebb_earl_co 10mo agoCheck out the instructions from Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/kb/1280/appletv https://tailscale.com/kb/1280/appletv
- lostlogin 10mo agoI’m reading that from a departure lounge. Wish I’d read this a few hours ago and the AppleTV would be coming with me.
- ninkendo 10mo agoI wish there was a way to use the tailscale app to connect to my own vanilla WireGuard endpoint at home. I don’t want to use and pay for tailscale when I can run WireGuard myself. But there seems to be no good WireGuard app for tvOS (there is for iOS and macOS though) and if the TS app works as well as it says, I’m jealous I can’t use it with my setup. (There’s another really shitty VPN app for tvOS that I tried, but it also costs money so screw that. It’s also buggy as hell and crashes all the time.) I should add that my use case is the occasional trip where we take the Apple TV with us places and want to access my media library. Or being able to share my media library with extended family (setting their Apple TV up with a vpn to my house.) More complex things like travel routers can work, but are more hassle than I want, although I’m increasingly leaning towards taking the plunge there…
- jddj 10mo agoJust get a sim card from home with roaming and use that data to access govt things?
- xrmagnum 10mo agoI built TunnelBuddy (tunnnelbuddy.net) just for this. I am the same: citizen of one country and resident of another. I have multiple friends and family where I am from. I get them to open tunnelbuddy (nobody needs to sign up), to share a one-off password (like TeamViewer) and I get to access the internet as if I was at their place. Underneath, it uses WebRTC (the same tech as Google Meet). It is free to use, I just built to fix this problem that I have... I am quite surprised expats only get by using a traditional VPN whose IPs are known by online services...
- mmaia 10mo agoThat's a cool tool. FYI: There's a typo in the URL you posted, an extra `n` :)