Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service
by RL_Quine on Friday October 16, 2020 @01:21AM
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> Then once you run an exit for long enough, your home network will get tor-like treatment from many CAPTCHAs and you'll be blocked from anything on cloudflare.
That'll take a matter of minutes. It doesn't take much to get on googles shitlist as soon as you do any sort of bot activity against their services. I manage to get on it by just searching humanly!
Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service
by BMSmnqXAE4yfe1 on Friday October 16, 2020 @04:09AM
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> your home network will get tor-like treatment from many CAPTCHAs and you'll be blocked from anything on cloudflare
That will happen if you use any VPN,so that's expected.
Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service
by detaro on Friday October 16, 2020 @04:16AM
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The point is that it'll happen for your non-VPN traffic, because you are a VPN server for others.
Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service
by BMSmnqXAE4yfe1 on Saturday October 17, 2020 @07:20AM
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I don't see any scenario where you would provide VPN services for others without using a VPN yourself.
> No bandwidth caps. No throttling. Stream all day, and download away.
Yes, no caps on the tunneled connection. But it will happily use up your home connection data caps with both your own and other people's traffic.
Then once you run an exit for long enough, your home network will get tor-like treatment from many CAPTCHAs and you'll be blocked from anything on cloudflare.
> FreePN never logs your IP or tracks your activity. (...) FreePN shields your data from prying eyes, giving you peace of mind.
FreePN doesn't log. But anyone running FreePN is welcome to do just that.
It's a perfect tool for that monitoring too. Tor browser at least has lots of extra protections. This one does not, so settig up a tunnel-to-tunnel routing node means you can listen to a lot of interesting things. (Without the liability of being a true exit node)