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My own digital ocean droplet. Its easy to set up and get going, costs only $5/mo, and with all of my other droplets bandwidths combined I effectively have unlimited bandwidth.

Only ever use it on public wifi, and it isn't meant to be "private", just good enough to prevent accidental data leakage at Starbucks/doctors' offices/wherever else my 5g doesn't reach and I'm forced onto public WiFi.



I used to do this, and it's nice having your own IP, however keep in mind that while you preserve privacy from your ISP/gov you lose privacy from the websites and services you access as you become very uniquely identifiable.


Yeah I'm less worried about trackers (block those with uOrigin and AdGuard), and just more worried about data leaks on public wifi which are less and less likely with everything being on SSL now, but until everything is FORCED onto SSL then I will still run my own VPN when I'm on public.


Note that those are client side. Nothing can stop a server from seeing your IP.




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