Non-paywall link: https://archive.ph/5LrEa
For VPN, I just run wireguard on a VPS since many websites seem to be blacklisting VPN IP addresses lately. And wiregaurd works on loonix, windows and android.
Except they can subpoena the cloud provider, and most of them require a credit card.
Not being paranoid either, the entertainment industry has done this.
I was talking in regard to service providers like Netflix taking measures targeted against VPN IP addresses.
In regard to subpoenas, VPN services can rat you out too. I have only heard of only one provider that has resisted government pressure.
Also, does it actually work? I feel like cloud servers would be even easier to block because one, they’re on fixed IP blocks and a simple reverse lookup will literally return a name like “X Cloud Hosting VPS”. And I imagine if they have a blacklist of known VPNs, they probably don’t expect “legitimate” traffic to come from a server either, they probably only expect residential and public Wi-Fi addresses.
Has worked fine so far. But yeah it’s easy to tell if the IP is from a VPS provider so it could stop working any time.
Make sure your VPN is not in a 5-Eyes country?
You don’t need VPN. There are streaming websites for every movie.
