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Forcing VPNs to collect your info will spread! (www.cnet.com)

submitted 2 years ago by GenkiFeral@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Anyone know if a self-hosted VPN is 100% secure?

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[–] DengueDucky@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The privacy you get from a VPN service is mainly from mixing your traffic with many other users and not keeping logs. No one knows for sure who visited which site.

If you self host a VPN, that protects you from your own ISP, and the sites you visit will not get your real IP, but your server host still knows what's going on.

[–] X_Cli@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think this argument is valid in a world where a global observer can already distinguish Tor traffic using timing and volume analysis.

Today, the best defense a VPN has to offer, privacy-wise, is protection against observers close to the victim, on hostile local network. Self-hosted VPNs can do that as well as any paying VPN service. The only reason I'm using a paying service myself is to circumvent geo restrictions. That's basically the only valid use-case.

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

vpn or searx [and sometimes].. Tor, are all not 100% perfect but they make identification more difficult and less certain.

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks!

[–] fadelkon@info.prou.be 2 points 2 years ago

This, assuming you self-host the other-host way, that is, hiring a vps and alike. Don't centralize the internet to commercial data-centers yet, please