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Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil by snapplebobapple on Sunday April 14, 2024 @06:10PM (#40034918)
My primary use case for a vpn is i dont trust people on my guest network and dont want their traffic looking like it is coming from an ip associated with me. I am not protecting against 3 letter agency levels of surveillance so i dont need the extra benefit and slowness of tor, i just need to move that traffic to a different jurisdiction to complicate things enough that people dont bother to figure out it came from my network on the off chance that someone i let on myguest network does something untoward.

does that count?

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Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil by theginger on Sunday April 14, 2024 @06:27PM (#40035046)
That's a valid privacy concern But is a VPN service a good solution? Certainly not if you are on a shared IP with the VPN. I know you can get some with a dedicated IP, but with most VPN providers it is still probably coming out of a cesspool of ips that you don't want any kind of association to.
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Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil by snapplebobapple on Sunday April 14, 2024 @07:09PM (#40035323)
Shared ip is even better if you are reasonably sure the provider deletes logs (i.ec you are using mullvad). Good luck proving in a court of law which of the firehouse of clients did whatever you are claiming.
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Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil by alex_lav on Sunday April 14, 2024 @09:19PM (#40036132)
Your use case is valid, I’m just kind of curious why they’re on your guest network if you don’t trust them? Like an AirBnB or something?
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Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil by snapplebobapple on Sunday April 14, 2024 @10:36PM (#40036570)
Worse than an airbnb, my relatives when they visit, lol
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