EDIT: For anyone looking at this post in the future, it is not viable. The main reason is because the VPN will basically have your own home IP and information. So it basically doesn’t do anything. You can look at the comment section for more info.
Hey everyone! One of my main issues with piracy in general are VPNs, because I absolutely HATE subscription services.
As far as i’m concerned, we need VPNs so that when torrenting, people cant see our IP adress and other information that can be potentially used againt us. I’ve heard that there’s people who log those IP adresses so that they can like “report” people doing piracy or sth like that. Correct me if i’m wrong.
So, with this purpose in mind, I understand that VPN services are useful because they can help hide our real information. But as I said, I dont like subscription services and I saw that there’s the option to selfhost a VPN.
But I thought a bit about it, and, if I’m using a selfhosted VPN using, for example, a raspberry pi or a laptop, isn’t the imformation of that laptop ALSO potentially dangerous? Because it is connected to your own ISP and it has the same location as you have (if you set it up at yout home).
I know this may sound dumb, but I don’t know much about this. And I can’t find information about this.
You can set up a “self hosted” VPN on a cloud service like Linode but you still would have to pay for their service which is $5 US a month for 1TB of traffic. the advantage is that you can make sure there are no logs and once it’s setup it’s fairly maintenance free. This guide is a bit older but i used back then which worked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxpX_mubz2A&t=685s. PS i don’t use it anymore but would if my situation changes.
edited to add “self hosted”
But the linode ip is directly linked to you! Be careful