I’ve been noticing over la last few years that is is becoming more and more difficult to login to accounts, whether a bank account, a membership account, sometimes even browsing websites for shopping, through my VPN server. Is this just my impression or is there something going on now whereby there are services that keep list of VPN servers that are then sold to backs so that these parties can keep out anyone from trying to login via a VPN. It feels like the general consensus is VPN=malicious rather than "VPN=“this guy is just trying to protect his privacy”. I use AIRVPN but was wondering if there are VPN services that are more sophisticate and try to circumvent these VPN server blocks? It becoming a real pain to the point I’m wondering what it the point of paying fro a VPN is I’m finding myself having to login through my ISP IP rather than my VPN IP.
But setting up a VPN on a VPS is not really going to do much for privacy is it? It wouldn’t take much to work out who is renting the VPS and the VPS has no incentive to hold back any info if a they were issued a search warrant.
Feels like it becoming more and more challenging living on the Internet without leaving breadcrumbs all over the place.
@trilobite @MangoPenguin
You don’t need VPN for everything. Bank is an example.
VPN it is just a tool, not making you invisible but still many companies will not log your real IP, and using it for tracking.
Good solution is to use different browsers (those can be fingerprint) so let’s say. Chrome for banking, shopping (Google is good for adds), and use another browser like Brave with Brave search engine for reading… searching.
TorBrowser - is the most powerful when it comes to privacy (just don’t use it for banking etc.) Some website blocking VPN IP, but TorBrowser might still work. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni2%5C_BN%5C_9xAY
TOR is just slightly harder to keep up on as far as being listed on the same tables as commercial VPN hosts because it’s so dynamic. Anyone can spin up a node and be a relay or, for the brave/foolish, an exit node in a few minutes.
Privacy largely comes from a plausible deniability in that the person asking for a site could be the originator or they could just be relaying a request for the originator. Freenet, or now called hypha net is similar that way.
My perspective on internet privacy has long been that while I don’t expect to be a ghost, I can make the picture as muddy as I can to make whatever profile they gather be as useless as possible.
Actually Tor relays and exits are published, public knowledge and you will be on every list that cares about listing those within hours of spinning up a relay or exit.
Interesting, I get a couple feeds that reference them but thought those where all gathered info rather than self published.
To avoid legal repercussions, probably.
It’s how Tor works. You have to publish your relay’s address or else other relays can’t find you. You can host a private/hidden guard node, but not an exit or relay.