youtube is blocked in my country (ISP in throttling traffic to youtube and its unwatchable)
My ideas on how to circumvent this:
- subscribing to a Virtual private network, about 3 dollars a month. pros: anonymity, easy to set up
cons: trusting another company to handle my data, maybe limited number of devices(including phones)??
2.setting up my own Virtual private network on a VPS.
pros: shouldn’t be privacy and security risks unless someone gets in the actual hardware, unlimited number of devices (except phones)
cons: only 1 country unless i set up another node, more costly then the first option, no anonymity.
- setting up a local VM to which i rout all my traffic: not sure about this option since i dont know if it will even work since my local server inside the country is going to be talking to the same youtube servers.
any tips?
Simply pick a VPN that has proven in COURT they are not able to provide logs when requested by authorities. There are just a few that actually have that, and those don’t come at 3$ a month, privacy has a cost.
With lots of VPN providers the no logs policy is questionable at best, it’s the equivalent of “trust me bro”.
Getting your own VPS/VPN won’t solve anything, as it’s registered in your name and the hardware isn’t really yours.
Even if you’d put down your own hardware in a datacenter, it’s still linked to you in many cases.
So overall go for a VPN that has a legel precedent not to save logs, and has some features like Traffic redirection ( You connect to VPN in country A, which send your request from country A to country B (VPN), and delivers the response back, it will look like you access VPN in country A) and traffic obfuscation.
Your comment about being able to monitor traffic going into the VPN sounds like you’re confusing a VPN with a proxy. A VPN connection is fully encrypted from your PC to the VPN. There’s not anyone going to tell what sites you’re connecting to unless there is some reporting software loaded directly on your PC. Other comment here about making sure you use one that doesn’t keep logs is an important one though.