Don't use VPN services

Re:Don't use VPN services by lr4444lr on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @05:42PM (#16371561)

So what's the alternative? Trust my ISP not to do the same? No thanks, I'll take my chances that my well-regarded and relatively cheap VPN service has both less resources to handle massive data storage for as long term, and is no less incentivized to turn huge profits or protect themselves by spilling everything to the government, even if both would under extreme duress. For what I pay, the VPN is a worthwhile little extra protection, not to mention the extra portable security when I have no choice but to use public wifi.

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Re:Don't use VPN services by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @08:50PM (#16372758)

If you're reading HN, one alternative is spin up your own VPN on AWS/Gcloud/DigitalOcean/etc. It's not hard, and there are some scripts / ansible playbooks to automate the process.

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Re:Don't use VPN services by cm2187 on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:37AM (#16374402)

The movie studio will send a DMCA to AWS who will pass it on to you, then what?

Helps with ISP snooping yes, though I expect it to be more expensive (VM and bandwidth in clouds isn’t cheap).

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Re:Don't use VPN services by hyperpower on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @08:33AM (#16375564)

What do you consider expensive? You can easily get a VM with 1TB bandwidth for $5 a month.

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Re:Don't use VPN services by cm2187 on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @09:07AM (#16375748)

I had AWS and Azure in mind.

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Re:Don't use VPN services by lr4444lr on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @11:04PM (#16373372)

Yes, but with all due respect, this misses the point: If my concern is privacy, consider the business incentives to each party for divulging info about me to a government agency or marketer. The cloud services you describe receive revenue from thousands of different companies with various business needs and concerns. Little ol' me won't be a blip on the radar revenue-wise, even if it's a big news story in the internet privacy world. For the VPN on the other hand, a sizable - maybe the lion's share - of their customer base has the same priority as me. If it gets out in public that the VPN caved either to pressures of the state or corporate greed on my data, they'd just as easily do so to anyone else, and customers would flee en masse.

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Re:Don't use VPN services by antihero on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:21PM (#16377403)

Is there a good guide/link to these scripts/Docker container/whatever that allows people to set up OpenVPN with a secure non-leaky configuration that reliably forwards all their traffic?

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