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Roll Your Own VPN/HTTP/AdBlock Service?

With all this Verizon header injection stuff going on I wonder if there is a way to combine a a VPN service like OpenVPN running on my own server to also do HTTP compression and perhaps Ad Blocking? I would only use this on my families phones on our limited Verizon data plan so it might save us a few bucks a month and I will gain piece of mind that my family isn't being tracked everywhere they go. A 3rd party doing this is http://www.onavo.com/apps/iphone but of course I am trading Verizon tracking for Facebook (The owners of Onavo) so I would love to run my own on EC2, or Digital Ocean or similar. The dream would be VPN, Ad Blocking, and HTTP compression all in one on a hosted box of my choosing and in my name where only I have control. Does anyone know of any open source projects doing this? I'd be happy to donate some money towards the cause as I think a lot of us on here could benefit from it

logn 12y ago
Privoxy is your missing piece. Combine that with OpenVPN. For compression: http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-COMPRESSION http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-COMPRE... edit: Also, setting proxies on Android -- http://w3epic.com/how-to-setting-proxy-on-android-phone-tablet/ http://w3epic.com/how-to-setting-proxy-on-android-phone-tabl... ... iPhone: http://appletoolbox.com/2012/08/how-to-set-up-and-configure-proxy-settings-on-an-ipad-iphone-or-ipod-touch/ http://appletoolbox.com/2012/08/how-to-set-up-and-configure-...
- stevenhubertron 12y ago
  I went deep down this path today, and have it all working, but it looks like there is no way to enable Privoxy proxying just by connecting to Open VPN. Meaning I would have to connect to the VPN and then add in a proxy server. Will keep digging though. Great start.
  - logn 12y ago
    Maybe this will help: https://forums.openvpn.net/topic16143.html https://forums.openvpn.net/topic16143.html
neftaly 12y ago
It's actually super cheap & easy. The setup below costs a few dollars a year and uses ~20MB RAM total: * Get a box from http://lowendspirit.com/ http://lowendspirit.com/ (or http://lowendstock.com/ http://lowendstock.com/) * Install OpenVPN & setup client certs with https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install * Setup your hosts file with http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt * Install & config the OpenVPN connect app on each device (no SFTP? use https://transfer.sh/ https://transfer.sh/)

logn 12y ago

Privoxy is your missing piece. Combine that with OpenVPN. For compression: http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-COMPRESSION http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-COMPRE... edit: Also, setting proxies on Android -- http://w3epic.com/how-to-setting-proxy-on-android-phone-tablet/ http://w3epic.com/how-to-setting-proxy-on-android-phone-tabl... ... iPhone: http://appletoolbox.com/2012/08/how-to-set-up-and-configure-proxy-settings-on-an-ipad-iphone-or-ipod-touch/ http://appletoolbox.com/2012/08/how-to-set-up-and-configure-...

stevenhubertron 12y ago
I went deep down this path today, and have it all working, but it looks like there is no way to enable Privoxy proxying just by connecting to Open VPN. Meaning I would have to connect to the VPN and then add in a proxy server. Will keep digging though. Great start.
- logn 12y ago
  Maybe this will help: https://forums.openvpn.net/topic16143.html https://forums.openvpn.net/topic16143.html

neftaly 12y ago

It's actually super cheap & easy. The setup below costs a few dollars a year and uses ~20MB RAM total: * Get a box from http://lowendspirit.com/ http://lowendspirit.com/ (or http://lowendstock.com/ http://lowendstock.com/) * Install OpenVPN & setup client certs with https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install * Setup your hosts file with http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt * Install & config the OpenVPN connect app on each device (no SFTP? use https://transfer.sh/ https://transfer.sh/)