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What VPN do you use when you cannot use Mullvad. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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What VPN have you switched to after the Mullvad situation. I have looked at nym and ivpn. But don't know if they are any good.

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[–] 7 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I use Proton VPN, but also exist self-hosted VPNs which is better

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    From what I understand, the use case for a self-hosted vpn is pretty different

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago*

    You can benefit from both a commercial VPN provider as well as at-home hosted.

    My Asus WRT router, which I flashed with Merlin firmware, has a feature called “VPN Director”, I can connect to 5 different VPN clients at a time and forward my devices connections individually through each one.

    My Asus router also has the option to host a WireGuard Server which i then forward through one of the VPN clients with the VPN director.

    Essentially creating a multi-hop network, the flow goes a little like such;

    Device -> WireGuard Tunnel -> Home Network -> WireGuard Tunnel -> Commercial VPN Server

    The commercial VPN is my endpoint therefore what the internet sees when I browse however I also benefit from my PiHole which handles my DNS queries an blocklists.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    How does a selfhosted VPN work? I thought the purpose was to offload the connection so the ISP only saw the company IP...which is this case is an IP toed to your location?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, a self-hosted VPN could reveal your IP, so you must hire a VPS server to host your VPN, so the IP you reveal is that of the VPS server located somewhere else, in turn you can configure proxies to mask the same IP of your VPS

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