Those are also botnet slaves.
This entire thread is about using a VPN to watch Disney+ outside of geo restrictions. Many many people use VPNs for this purpose and no other. You can't trivially do this on your own at all. You're making it seems simple, getting an VPS with an IP that won't automatically be banned by all sorts of services looking to protect themselves against botnets and the exact sort of geofence hopping that people want to do is extremely difficult.
Sure, the instance doesn’t cost much, but bandwidth does in the case of AWS and GCS. Streaming 4K video chews through bandwidth.
I might be wrong about EC2 pricing, but at least for me, ~$11 per region is not "almost-zero-cost". Unless we're talking about on demand instances.
I wonder if there is a community run VPN service to utilize instances more efficiently.
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricin...
Throwing GDPR and `ftw' in the same sentence. Hmm. No GDPR does not work that way hah. At least not in the global context.
GDPR only applies to you _if_ you happen to be a European Union citizen.
There's nothing in GDPR that has anything to do with EU citizenship.
1. GDPR applies to the processing of personal data if the controller or processor is "in the Union", regardless of where the person whose personal data is being processed resides, and regardless of where the processing takes place.
2. It applies to any data subject that is "in the Union".
All the places in it that you might have expected it to say "Union citizen" instead say "in the Union".
Unless you're paying Amazon in bitcoin you're not removing your personal identity from the account.
joepie91 maintains a list, but it looks like it's a couple of years out of date: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/bitcoinvps.html
I'd like to pursue this, but have just little enough experience with ec2 to not be composing effective search terms.
It’s an Ansible playbook for easily setting up a VPN with good security defaults. It’s so easy and really the only knowledge you need to know is how to get api keys for the provider of choice.
Their tutorials will hold your hand all the way to the end.
Waiting for https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand/pull/1668 to be fixed though.
Obviously this only applies if you don't plan on destroying/recreating your Streisand server after the newer PR gets merged (EDIT--just got merged). But just in case, the steps are pretty easy (it's in the PR here too: https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand/pull/1688):
[root@streisand]# cat > /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/deploy/01-reload-nginx.sh << EOF
#!/bin/sh
systemctl reload nginx
EOF
[root@streisand]# chmod u+x /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/deploy/01-reload-nginx.sh
You also won't have any anonymity since you're billing details and instances are all logged permanently. It's not really a viable alternative.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
I never understand this false dichotomy - especially in a forum which is named ... let me check ... "hacker news".
Just set up your own.
It costs almost nothing to run a EC2 instance in the region of your choice (or at some other provider like GCS or whatever). There are keystroke-by-keystroke instructions everywhere on setting this up.
Extra points for adding the extremely trivial and also very low cost steps of signing up under a corporate name and removing your personal identity from the account altogether.
Some more extra points for multiplying the almost-zero-cost by 3 or 4 or 5 and spinning up extra copies of your endpoint in multiple regions (or even providers) and manually (or automatically) switching between them.
You don't need to trust anyone - adjust your threat model all the way up to "near nation state" (in the case of Amazon or GCS) and assume these actors could already discern all of your Internet traffic even if you weren't doing business with them.
Christ.