The title is "How to set up a VPN in 10 minutes for free" although it doesn't tell you how to "set up" a VPN, just how to configure your browser to use one, or to buy a service or device (router) to connect to a VPN.<p>If you actually are looking to set up your own VPN, I recommend this guide on Digital Ocean[1] If privacy is your main concern for using a VPN, and you are technically inclined, then it would make sense to be in control of the server acting as your VPN.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-openvpn-server-on-ubuntu-16-04" rel="nofollow">https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...</a>
This is incredibly bad advice. Opera has the worst security track record of every other major browser, and clicking that ad blocker button routes all your traffic through a single endpoint at a Chinese-owned company. Hello surveillance! Even the routers... haven't there been enough remotely exploitable flaws in those archaic router vendors to recommend against using them at this point? You might get a VPN in name but you'll get none of the security that comes with them that way.<p>You should setup your own personal VPN server if you can. We wrote Algo VPN, a set of ansible scripts that automates the process as much as possible. It contains the most secure defaults available, works with common cloud providers, and does not require client software on most devices.<p><a href="https://github.com/trailofbits/algo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/trailofbits/algo</a>
> This is where the EFF’s HTTPS Everywhere extension comes in handy. It will make sure traffic to non-HTTPS websites is also encrypted.<p>Is it just me, or this paragraph is completely wrong?
HTTPS Everywhere's job is to HTTPS when available but not explicitely used.
"How to cut-and-paste your way into a VPN setup for free without having any idea WTF you're doing, let alone how to adapt these instructions when the underlying technologies inevitably roll over in the next 24-48 months" would have been a more descriptive title.
> Hijack your searches and share them with third parties<p>What does it mean to "hijack" a search? If the ISP is modifying your data in flight then that'd qualify though I don't think this bill gives them that power.<p>Also, most (all?) searches go over SSL which would not be susceptible to MITM fiddling.<p>At most it gives them access to log the number of bytes sent per customer to each destination and the DNS lookups you've performed. I'd be concerned if they are selling that information but there's no need to make up fake lingo to sell this. It's crap enough as it stands.
Isn't opera owned by chinese (nothing against them just that they are the same level as US)? The traffic is only as secure as where the VPN terminates and there is no mention of what servers opera uses.
Don't mean to hijack the thread; but speaking of Tor...If some entity ran enough nodes wouldn't they be able to get a pretty good idea of the traffic sources and destinations?
I've used <a href="https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/vpn/new" rel="nofollow">https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/vpn/new</a> several times to quickly set up a new VPN on a DigitalOcean droplet. Takes ~5 minutes.<p>Lately I had it set one up for me and have just let it run constantly since then. I effectively have my own personal VPN for $5 month.
So 50 Republican senators, and not a single Democratic senator, voted for CRA, but also won't permit the FTC to regulate ISPs when it comes to preserving user privacy. Is this coincidence or is it a "market opportunity" for ISP's to bring back privacy as a product? Disallow VPN at the standard pricing level; and only permit it if you upgrade?
I don't know much about VPNs, so please forgive my ignorance. But doesn't using a VPN basically throttle you to whatever internet speed the VPN server has? I pay for 100mb at home, I don't really want to artificially throttle that down to 10mb or pay some exorbitant price for giving the endpoint 100mb.
> If you want to take things next level, you can try Tor, which is extremely private, and extremely hard to de-anonymize<p>I don't think Tor would eliminate the need for a VPN; wouldn't your ISP still be able to see the requested URL?<p>Edit: I was thinking of DNS leaks, but that's really not an issue if you use Tor Browser.
A friend recently setup openvpn to run in his router (I'm going to guess it was MIPS based), and his download bandwidth went from ~100Mbps to about 10Mbps; so a 10x drop. Why? Is a MIPS CPU in a consumer off the shelf router ($200) itself just too underpowered for this task?
Opera doesn't provide a true VPN in its browser, it's just a proxy.<p>Learn more about VPNs and all privacy related things here:
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/</a>
Here is a link to setup VPN Server on AWS.<p><a href="https://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2015/how-to-setup-your-own-private-secure-free-vpn-on-the-amazon-aws-cloud-in-10-minutes/" rel="nofollow">https://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2015/how-to-setup-your-own-pr...</a>
There is no privacy without open source software.
This article with the recommandations to buy Netgear stuff or commercials VPN services is just a farce.<p>The author don't know shit, writing this type of false articles will lead to another privacy disaster.