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Has there been any increase in VPN use in US states banning porn sites? (feddit.org)
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[–] shalafi 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Probably not what you want for the effort, but I've been running a Digital Ocean droplet out of Amsterdam for years, $6/mo.

Spun up a Debian instance, followed directions for an OpenVPN setup, failed, came back at it 2 weeks later, never had to touch it again. Been long in IT, but I'm no Linux graybeard. Their tutorials are spot on if you can follow directions. I did it drunk. LOL, I'm not even sure how to login anymore, just pay the bill!

Now if I want VPN, I start OpenVPN, wait 5 seconds, I'm in Amsterdam, good to go.

[–] moseschrute 1 points 1 week ago

My very not scientific understanding is that using a VPN to a remote server is like throwing your internet traffic into a blender with everyone else using that server. So isn’t this the one time it’s better to not self host so your traffic is mixed into a much larger pool of other VPN traffic? Or am I missing something.