Yeah, a middleman you get to choose. That’s a huge improvement. There are plenty of trustworthy VPN providers.
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Scrollone@feddit.it 5 weeks agoUsing a VPN just moves the trust to another middleman.
priapus@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
1984@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
You can set up wireguard vpn on a tiny instance in Amazon or Google, and bounce traffic through that one. Then you control what gets logged (Amazon may have logs over all outgoing connections from all instances somewhere though).
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Tor over VPN
futatorius@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Multiple middlemen are better than just one. Also, you can test its effectiveness.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Is that tinfoil hat comfortable?
Scrollone@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
Using a VPN means that all your traffic is routed through a possibly malicious actor.
oxomoxo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Like Kevin Spacey?
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s gold, Jerry!
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
So use a trustworthy middleman? Surely you can find someone more trustworthy than advertising companies?