• @LonelyWendigo
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    11 year ago

    Self hosting a VPN isn’t going to help hide traffic from your ISP though. Even if you “self host” on a cloud instance or rack elsewhere, you’ve still got ISPs there who will see all your traffic. Unless there’s some other magic implied that I’ve overlooked?

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      yes but you are shifting your trust from your current isp to a different, hopefully more trustworthy, one. there is always trust somewhere in the line. it also gives the benefit of location spoofing for the destination site.

      crowd blending is a valuable aspect of commercial vpns but isn’t the only aspect that makes a VPN of value.