The privacy you get from a VPN service is mainly from mixing your traffic with many other users and not keeping logs. No one knows for sure who visited which site.
If you self host a VPN, that protects you from your own ISP, and the sites you visit will not get your real IP, but your server host still knows what’s going on.
I don’t think this argument is valid in a world where a global observer can already distinguish Tor traffic using timing and volume analysis.
Today, the best defense a VPN has to offer, privacy-wise, is protection against observers close to the victim, on hostile local network. Self-hosted VPNs can do that as well as any paying VPN service. The only reason I’m using a paying service myself is to circumvent geo restrictions. That’s basically the only valid use-case.
The privacy you get from a VPN service is mainly from mixing your traffic with many other users and not keeping logs. No one knows for sure who visited which site.
If you self host a VPN, that protects you from your own ISP, and the sites you visit will not get your real IP, but your server host still knows what’s going on.
I don’t think this argument is valid in a world where a global observer can already distinguish Tor traffic using timing and volume analysis.
Today, the best defense a VPN has to offer, privacy-wise, is protection against observers close to the victim, on hostile local network. Self-hosted VPNs can do that as well as any paying VPN service. The only reason I’m using a paying service myself is to circumvent geo restrictions. That’s basically the only valid use-case.
vpn or searx [and sometimes]… Tor, are all not 100% perfect but they make identification more difficult and less certain.
Thanks!
This, assuming you self-host the other-host way, that is, hiring a vps and alike. Don’t centralize the internet to commercial data-centers yet, please