Da Common Sense on Nostr: Running VPN doesnt increase your privacy, eveb could do the situation worse. Here are ...
Running VPN doesnt increase your privacy, eveb could do the situation worse. Here are few articles about the topic:
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/vpns.html
https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
https://privsec.dev/posts/proxies/commercial-vpn-use-cases/
https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html
If you really want privacy or anonymity, you should use tor instead - https://www.torproject.org/
Or just dont use anything. Everything is encrypted these days (nostr has it own encryption, almost all sites are using https) and your IP doesnt give almost not information in comparison to all other data and metadata your browser is giving to 3rd party sites - https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/browser-tracking.html
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/vpns.html
https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
https://privsec.dev/posts/proxies/commercial-vpn-use-cases/
https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html
If you really want privacy or anonymity, you should use tor instead - https://www.torproject.org/
Or just dont use anything. Everything is encrypted these days (nostr has it own encryption, almost all sites are using https) and your IP doesnt give almost not information in comparison to all other data and metadata your browser is giving to 3rd party sites - https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/browser-tracking.html