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Safe? Against what?

- Preventing websites from seeing your true IP? (you'll want to disable webrtc as well[1].) Mostly yes.

- preventing your ISP from spying on your traffic? (allowing Amazon to spy on your traffic in exchange...) Yes.

- Avoiding risk of legal threats if you engage in copyright infringement? Mostly no. They can subpoena Amazon instead of your ISP, and your lightsail/EC2 ip isn't shared.

Routing through a vpn, whether it's a commercial one or through AWS, linode, digitalocean, etc. will get you blocked on far more sites, because it's more difficult to identify individual clients, and there's more fraud and bot activity on any kind of vps or vpn netblock than there is on typical residential netblocks.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Prevent-WebRTC-from-l...

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I live in Turkey and I got myself Wireguard set-up with wireguard+lightsail. I can say I got same trouble as no-VPN. For example I cant view profiles on Twitter when im on VPN.

btw Turkey is notorious for blocking sites, Youtube got blocked for months, Wikipedia is still blocked today..

My condolences

Which country was your exit IP ? was it the US ?

What happens if you route it through servers in Qatar, Thailand or Singapore ?

I live in Turkey too and i got an Iceland based vps setup with v2ray, shadowsocks, trojan-gfw and shadowvpn. I can access all sites with no problems.

They can’t block sites when going via a Wireguard VPN surely?

Where are you exiting?

Do people talk about the blocks and why they are there? It’s such a crude tool, but presumably it works as it’s done in way too many places.

This is why I always advise friends to use smaller VPN services, less chance of a site recognizing the VPN. In any case, if you're going to engage in illegal activity you're better off hooking a clean computer to a long-range antenna and connecting to the nearest McDonald's. Keep that computer off your home network entirely and only transfer files with a flash drive.

I would be fascinated to hear about how Amazon is spying on EC2 traffic in the same ways ISPs want to spy on/monetize customer traffic

except for long forgotten http-tricks inserting scripts: what do ISPs do today? I guess they log a lot of connection data (which AWS certainly does too)

DNS logging and legally mandated modification. See the recent thread about UK ISPs disliking Mozilla using DNS over HTTPS.

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