You can set up wireguard vpn on a tiny instance in Amazon or Google, and bounce traffic through that one. Then you control what gets logged (Amazon may have logs over all outgoing connections from all instances somewhere though).
You can even make it change it’s public ip every day if you want.
Not the magic bullet people think they are. Oh, and you can’t turn it off, so you’ll have to take the loss in network speed on absolutely everything. And better know how to configure each device so it doesn’t go ahead and check leak your IP anyways, which also restricts choice of devices you use. Cause remember, if any device on your network ever connects to the net without the VPN, then your anonymity just went out the window.
I agree it’s a powerful tool! I was specifically responding to “problem solved” in the previous comment. My reply was in no way meant as a general review of VPNs.
Use a VPN. Problem solved.
Latitude and Longitude are in there. As is screen brightness. He does acknowledge that he is on Wi-Fi, but that’s still super suspicious
Using a VPN just moves the trust to another middleman.
Yeah, a middleman you get to choose. That’s a huge improvement. There are plenty of trustworthy VPN providers.
So use a trustworthy middleman? Surely you can find someone more trustworthy than advertising companies?
Tor over VPN
You can set up wireguard vpn on a tiny instance in Amazon or Google, and bounce traffic through that one. Then you control what gets logged (Amazon may have logs over all outgoing connections from all instances somewhere though).
You can even make it change it’s public ip every day if you want.
Is that tinfoil hat comfortable?
Using a VPN means that all your traffic is routed through a possibly malicious actor.
Like Kevin Spacey?
That’s gold, Jerry!
Make sure you disable or properly configure webrtc. Even with a VPN it will leak your true IP address.
Check here.
https://browserleaks.com/webrtc
Not the magic bullet people think they are. Oh, and you can’t turn it off, so you’ll have to take the loss in network speed on absolutely everything. And better know how to configure each device so it doesn’t go ahead and check leak your IP anyways, which also restricts choice of devices you use. Cause remember, if any device on your network ever connects to the net without the VPN, then your anonymity just went out the window.
No one thinks VPNs are “magic bullets”. I don’t know why this gets repeated ad nauseum.
True but it’s not that bad.
Just choose a good provider. You don’t need to configure anything.
That’s what kill switches are for.
I agree it’s a powerful tool! I was specifically responding to “problem solved” in the previous comment. My reply was in no way meant as a general review of VPNs.
That VPN provider will then know ALL the connections you make. Almost worse than just using the Internet normally.
That’s an uninformed statement.
You get to pick your provider. So pick one that you trust.
It’s FAR better than without as your ISP is probably selling your traffic to third parties or at least monitoring it. Some VPNs don’t.