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0 pointsborski12y ago0 comments

Fair point, but your personal VPN is also a lot less likely to attract scrutiny and be attractive to snooping than PIA. It's just a much bigger surface area, more popular, and potentially has a lot more useful data than your single box.

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floatboth12y ago

Also, public VPN services like PIA mix the traffic, i.e. multiple VPN users' traffic is coming from one IP address.

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0 pointsborski12y ago0 comments

Fair point, but your personal VPN is also a lot less likely to attract scrutiny and be attractive to snooping than PIA. It's just a much bigger surface area, more popular, and potentially has a lot more useful data than your single box.

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floatboth12y ago

Also, public VPN services like PIA mix the traffic, i.e. multiple VPN users' traffic is coming from one IP address.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse