aanes_appreciator [he/him, comrade/them]

Welsh, Social Ecology and Jineology enjoyer, and computer programmer.

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  • My main goals are as follows:

    1. Provide wider network privacy.

    2. Obscure Torrents traffic from my ISP/Government should their enforcement against this increase.

    3. Obscure traffic and bypass censorship of sites and services targeted by the so-called “Online safety act”. Whether that’s porn, wikipedia, or social media censored for Antizionism, I don’t care. I only mention location spoofing as that’s a mechanism of bypassing said censorship.

    4. Allow access to my home server remotely via my existing hosted domain in Cloudflare, which allows me to set family memebers up with client applications easily.



  • I have a homelab that I could host the VPN on and route traffic through there? Unless the principle is different to how, say, PiHole works?

    Does a VPS have its own issues since it would be tied to my banking info should I use it to bypass a government censor? Or are we suggesting:

    LAN -> VPS -> VPN -> WAN

    Yes ideally I want all network users on that VPN. How would a cheap VPS handle data streaming? I have 500mbps down so I imagine a VPS could be a massive bottleneck unless I pay £££

    EDIT: ah looks like there are generally affordable VPS (£8/mo) that offer a good speed.





  • I’m not confident but I will say this is very difficult to implement in practice with how many systems rely on VPNs to function, namely thousands of busineses that are the backbone of our information economy.

    I know this usually gets legislated around in countries where they’re applied, such as demanding that VPN providers forfeit user privacy or deploy censors, or allowing corporations to bypass certain restrictions.

    However, I would also point to the number of users here from countries where western services are banned alongside VPNs. For example, we have a few Iranian comrades, where VPNs outside of backdoored options are banned.

    Enforcing these bans is hard to do, if the govt’s current record on enforcing bans on torrenting/copyrighting content is to be observed. We must do what we can to disseminate the tools to bypass our governments!