Are VPN good for privacy today, should we used them to protect our privacy?

Not free, none have all advantages and wouldn’t let my ISP only know my traffic so these times I’m really overwhelmed by all of this

Used Tor for a bit but it’s not practically useful, slow (okay but not the main problem) and blocked by a lot of websites…

Maybe a chain of VPN could be good? I really don’t know, can you help me?

Basically I don’t want to have no protection but don’t think VPNs are really the solution…

PS: maybe a rented machine with self hosted like VPN could be good?

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    VPN into your home lab isn’t about privacy, it’s more about reducing your exposed services to the public internet.

    If you have only the ports needed to VPN back into your network, then the rest is hidden behind your router. You only need to fully secure one thing, instead of having to ensure that everything is 100% patched.

    It’s not the only thing you should be doing, but it does help reduce the probability of a breach.