Are VPN good for privacy today, should we used them to protect our privacy?
Not free, none have all advantages and wouldn’t let my ISP only know my traffic so these times I’m really overwhelmed by all of this
Used Tor for a bit but it’s not practically useful, slow (okay but not the main problem) and blocked by a lot of websites…
Maybe a chain of VPN could be good? I really don’t know, can you help me?
Basically I don’t want to have no protection but don’t think VPNs are really the solution…
PS: maybe a rented machine with self hosted like VPN could be good?
If you are really concerned, buy VPC from large cloud provider, install HTTPS server proxy, configure your web browser to use it. 512MB RAM server will be sufficient as long as it is given enough CPU. Free google instance is suffering from low CPU, not memory.
This way your link between you and internet provider is obscured. Your IP will be shared with others by cloud provider, so you get some obfuscation on that end.
If you use your own certificate authority, then you will get 100% man in the middle protection for link between internet provider and your home. If you use let’s encrypt, then we don’t know that status.
Advantage of this model is speed.
Your browser is still finger-printable, as always.
Securing DNS is its own topic.
You shifted your identity to cloud provider, so it is never 100% safe.
Forget about we keep no logs VPN statements. Judge order and you are logged by VPN provider and don’t know it. So what are you paying for? Slow speed and obfuscation of IP?
Or maybe a two hope vps setup should be great too, while preserving usable speeds