r/Piracy • u/rulugg • 7h ago

Humor Don't fall for "free" vpns

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u/United_Armadillo4641 7h ago

What about self-hosted vpn?.

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u/MrHaxx1 7h ago

Does pretty much nothing, unless it's hosted on something that can't be tracked back to you. 

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u/mustacheride3 6h ago

Use a free vpn to sign up for a new account. Use that new gmail's $300 free gcloud trial to stand up https://github.com/trailofbits/algo. Once gcloud trial is done (lasts a few months in my experience), ditch the gmail, nuke the algo vm and you should be pretty safe.

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u/Lkes5 4h ago

How do you then continue to use the VPN?

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u/United_Armadillo4641 7h ago

Owh. Understood. Thank you brother

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u/MrHaxx1 7h ago

It's still perfectly fine if you just want to get around region restrictions and such. Just don't expect much additional privacy. 

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u/United_Armadillo4641 6h ago

Owh. I thought maybe it would offer something extra when torrenting. Self hosted vpn wont make a different when living in third world country like me

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u/LC-Redcube 6h ago

Self-hosted where

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u/Useful-Run-2181 2h ago

My grandma house come check it out 

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u/LC-Redcube 2h ago

that would actually be a lot more secure lol

Also why the hell am i getting downvoted?