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VPN as the day of today?
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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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Privacy is a trade-off against convenience, and there is no perfect privacy.
VPNs are a mediocre privacy tool, because they presuppose trust in the VPN provider. Tor is flawed because it is open to correlation attacks.
There are low-hanging fruit that everybody should be using like sensible cookie policies, HTTPS-only mode, and DNS over HTTPS.
If you are looking for a solution on the far end of privacy/inconvenience you could look into I2P and use that situationally.
I would rather put my trust in a good VPN provider than the big CAs. And HTTPS only and DoH is not going to protect you from fingerprinting using your IP address.
Is a self hosted VPN good for daily privacy?
That depends on your threat model. It's a useful strategy to hide your traffic from your local network admin (e.g. at the workplace) and your ISP, but it's a bad strategy for hiding your identity from the sites you're visiting.