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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[–] 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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