Plus browsing the web from a hosting provider is a worse web; you'll get more sites rejecting you or putting you through bad CAPTCHAs all the time because the same service you can rent a server from, so can all the spammers and scrapers and other bad actors, so you're pretty likely to end up in an IP space with bad reputation.
If anyone can argue me out of this position, go nuts. I want this to work and do something useful, I just can't convince myself it does even with that bias.
The "I think you're a bad actor" web is much worse. Ask Tor users.
At least there are a few shreds of controls remaining on US agency surveillance of US persons using US networks.
But there are absolutely zero controls on monitoring networks beyond US borders, so it's open season for non-US hosts.
not just US location or even US services .. it's hard to be secure when we know that the US gov is reading and storing everythign they can.
In comparison -- the EU is not. The EU has the opposite approach and takes data privacy very seriously. This is backed up with effective legislation.
EU hosts are almost certainly monitored even more by US agencies than US hosts.
GDPR doesn't fix any of this.
"Europe furious, 'shocked' by report of U.S. spying"
https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/30/world/europe/eu-nsa/index.htm...
To the people looking to setup a simple http proxy in three steps:
1. Set up a server instance who's IP you know and have configured ssh.
2. In Browser: Manual SOCKS Proxy: 127.0.0.1: your_chosen_port
3. In terminal: ssh -i ssh_key -D your_chosen_port user@ip_address