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Re:Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app by gnode on Thursday May 24, 2018 @11:25AM (#17144908)
The fundamental problem with this is that it's charity / freeloading. I don't mean this as an ethical complaint, just that the economic incentive isn't there.

I could imagine cryptocurrency potentially offering a solution to this which solves both issues of trust and economics, but it would be a challenge to guarantee its security.

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Re:Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app by BicyclRepairMan on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:29PM (#17145632)
I seem to remember implementations like this already being in formation. Jay Freeman (aka saurik) is working on one called Orchid with a handful of other big names IIRC. I think I read about it here on YC.
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Re:Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app by solarkraft on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:30PM (#17145649)
It would be easy to make the Tor browser also a tor node. This would unfortunately however have negative effects for users depending on secrecy, I think.
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Re:Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app by chii on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:14PM (#17145434)
it would be nice if TOR had reciprocity where a user using it will also donate some network bandwidth. But i guess that might not really work since it forces you to run an exit node, which is where the dangers of running TOR is currently.
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Re:Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app by gnode on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:48PM (#17145853)
That's not actually true; nodes can be non-exit and relay only. This helps insofar as to reduce the relaying load on the exits too.
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