this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
20 points (88.5% liked)

Privacy

5813 readers
21 users here now

A community for Lemmy users interested in privacy

Rules:

  1. Be civil
  2. No spam posting
  3. Keep posts on-topic
  4. No trolling

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
20
Recommend a VPN with residential exit IPs (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
30 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Some friends have safety concerns that mean they need to appear digitally as if they're inside the USA while being elsewhere physically. Standard commercial VPNs are easy to detect (else I'd recommend Mullvad), so they need an option that looks like a residential connection.

They could potentially DIY it by leaving a VPN server at a relative's house, but I'm asking here for subscription services. It's best if they have a Mac OS app that's foolproof, with a clear visual indication that it's in use, and a feature to block traffic if the VPN is disconnected.

tl;dr: what's the closest residential VPN to Mullvad?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I've heard of them in the context of screwing over people who want an easy income: they're promised some pennies for their connection being used, then find themselves banned from Netflix and Spotify for "being on a VPN".

Also, isn't this where scrapers come from? Edit: just a short while after writing this, saw the news about FOSS projects being DDOSed by AI scrapers from Amazon and such. Yes, they are indeed using such residential IPs.