Serverless VPN Self-Hosted is a software you run on your own servers.
Sure --- as long as the server isn't directly traceable to you.
Anyone can easily create a totally anonymous server, right? Right?
Sure --- as long as the server isn't directly traceable to you.
Anyone can easily create a totally anonymous server, right? Right?
Indeed for anonimity it's much better to take a commercial VPN where you're one of the many on the same IP. But for geoblocks it's better to have an IP they haven't seen before. Though cloud provider IPs don't fare well either.
But yeah it's a very steep price IMO. I guess they're not aiming at us techies though. We can figure this out in 10 minutes. Someone who's never heard of docker might consider it worth it.
If the provider logs your IP when you connect, they have enough personal information to identify you. Unless you use a real VPN when you connect to the server running your "Serverless VPN".
It's the exact same with every VPN, every provider. They can promise no logs yet turn on logging if authorities request it.
At least you can reduce the amount of information you give.
Obviously, there is no way to avoid anything with this. It just adds one simple, easily traceable layer of indirection without any assurance of anonymity. It's not much different than using a free public proxy server in Mozambique.
https://www.proxynova.com/proxy-server-list/
They can promise no logs yet turn on logging if authorities request it.
Which most contractually agree not to do without a valid court order. In which case, authorities have to at least put forth the time, effort and money to submit a legally valid court order --- which can be substantial based on the jurisdiction.
The same contracts where they also say they are able to change it at any time without any notice and a lot of them say they may request a court order, not that it's a must.
Also same in the case of a VPS provider? They can also say no logging unless court ordered.
> If the provider logs your IP when you connect, they have enough personal information to identify you.
Also they can't identify you based on it, it alone doesn't give them enough to identify you, they aren't able to access any subscriber info from your ISP, mobile carrier, etc.
https://www.reuters.com/article/legal/law-enforcement-can-ge...
the price you pay for is: it is slow.