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What would you recommend then? I got sold on the privacy branding on Brave. But if it is useless and proven so, then I might as well migrate back to Firefox
It's hard to recommend anything to be honest, but personally I gravitate to Firefox with a bunch of privacy extension. Everything is opensource and everything is as non-controversial as it gets this days.
For vpn I installed my own on vps. I understand that it might sound a bit intimidating, but seriously you just follow instructions and everything works. But I use vpn to access stuff that is unaccessible in my country, it's not really a solution for privacy or safety, despite what an ad might tell you. And if you use it to get a little safety it might provide, using some huge company's solution is kind of defies the purpose
Using a vpn on a VPS kills the use for using the vpn for privacy, and, to a degree, anonymity. You do not share the IP with anyone so you are still trackable while using your vpn.
Depends on whom do you want to hide from. If you just don't want to have your porn history being sold by your local ISP or whatever, it's perfectly fine. If you want to be completely anonymous, VPN is the wrong tool for that, doesn't matter who has your logs, your ISP or your VPN company.
I used to have my own VPN set up. Had a massive power surge and took out my RPi running PiVPN. When I have time, I plan on re-setting it up again.
My main reason for VPN is as I have been researching Crypto more and I had read that you needed a VPN to interact with the DeFi Network.
I might go back to FireFox depending. I'm also trying to dedicate Chrome exclusively for use with my job and having either FF, or in this case, Brave for everything else I do.
Having VPN server on your own home network doesn't achieve anything. Like, nothing at all.
Not necessarily, depends on the use case.
To be honest, I struggle to come up with the usecause in this scenario. You are on the same network as your server, the fact that you also create vpn with it doesn't do anything. Maybe if you want to consolidate the traffic from different machines, I don't know, but everything I can think of that might require that will not be fulled by the vpn
What I have mainly used it for is when I’m not in the same location as my network and I need something from it. Like a Cloud so to speak. To VPN in, grab it, and done.
Well, yeah, of course, but that's not "having vpn from the same network you are in", it's different stuff