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Re:Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters by martin_a on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @01:40PM (#45118506)
I did this for a while in combination with a PiHole setup on a small vultr.com package.

Utility in that was that the traffic of all devices was routed through a "PiHoled VPN", so very little advertisements came through...

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Re:Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters by giobox on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @02:52PM (#45119204)
A cheap VPS instance + DNS with adblock + self hosted VPN used to be great until around ~5 years ago, when a great many websites (especially streaming sites) just started blocking any IP range associated with a VPS provider. I've given up using VPSes as VPN exit nodes now.
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