That’s kind of the point of a vpn though? Your traffic will exit the same node as lot of other traffic. Ipv6 or not

I use proton vpn on my home machine 24/7. never have to switch servers.

So only 3 people have the archive? That makes it easy for the NSA and others: take out their copies and then start seeding doubt that it ever was a thing. No proof will be left behind.

My VPN is on when I need to be on. It's not on 24/7.

How is that?

One of the for horsemen of the infocalypse. "Think of the children".

They are called perv-glasses BTW.

They should be banned everywhere.

WWIII is kind of underway now

Has been since 2014 or 2022, depending on which time you count Russia starting it.

Yep. Selfhosted VPN is for privacy from surveillance capitalism and "dragnet" government searches (which corporate/paid VPNs are IMO not effective against)

My 1 node is still way more expensive than a VPN package and does not provide location switching nor plausible deniability via mixing with other traffic (the latter is what Tor and related mixnets are for)

IMO location switching is the sole benefit of paid VPNs.

Worth noting: neither selfhost nor corporate VPNs are effective defenses against targeted government surveillance. Arguably, nothing is.

Another downside of self-hosted VPN is you only have those exit nodes you can afford to pay for.

Established commercial VPN services typically have their hundreds of exit nodes in dozens of countries, all included in what I pay, and allow very easy switching between those at will. I couldn't afford to run that many exit nodes, nor afford to keep switching to new ones as the old ones get blocked.

Reminder that if you can produce evidence that they didn't, you can sue them.

I've used Proton VPN for over 2 years. I also usually get captchad with some websites, the cloudflare ones just ask to click a button, the google ones are annoying, yes.

I almost never have to switch servers, only exception is YouTube (through GrayJay) but servers in Chile worked 99.9% of the time (don't know why) so I didn't have to spend too much time on that.

I don't recall having connection issues, I can even game online with this VPN

Edit: some websites blocked the VPN, I usually either gave up on them or turned off VPN if I had to use them (very few financial institutions)

I don't use a privacy VPN in my daily life. I don't trust any VPN company any more than my ISP, so i don't really see the point.

I do VPN back to my home network on my mobile decices, this is mostly for easier access to selfhosted services, but also has the advantage of not giving servers a mobile IP when I'm out, which I believe is a more critical datapoint to protect

TBF, anybody using IPv6 is ... uniquely identifiable, at least at that layer

My go-to exit node is in Albania, especially when using NewPipe. I heard that its illegal for YouTube to run ads in Albania, so if that's true they might not put in effort to block Albanian IPs.

Aside from that, I can sympathize as that happens very often to me as well. I have JS turned off by default so when I see a site asking me to turn it on its usually for the cloudflare bot check. I'm not doing any heavy duty website usage by any means, so I have some patience for that, but also I am far less likely to use a site that requires JS which makes VPN hurdles easier to manage. I basically only switch it off when I need to access a .gov site.

Have it "scrap" websites randomly and if anyone questions it. Just say its for training AI.

Both, I bet. Internet-connected cars in general aren't very secure, so this isn't really very surprising.

Is this the reason they want to/are banning Chinese EVs in the US? Or is it just to protect profits? Or is it both?

Another downside is that your traffic is no longer being mingled with other users on the same IP.

Ok, yes, not surprised. How can I learn to hack my own car? I have a number of changes I'm interested in making, e.g. I would like the music controls on the left 1/3 of the screen, and the map on the right 2/3s. It's currently the reverse. Simple stuff like that, to start.

Seems unlikely to be the issue though. Fact is that all VPNs will have some network overhead, and even the best provider often don't provide full upload speeds, so torrents in particular may not run at full bandwidth. But if you are using public trackers, it's well worth the tradeoff in speed. And if you are posting any political related content, it seems mad not to be using a VPN nowadays.

It is either US companies selling your data for other companies to give YOU 'personalized' Ads and 'dynamic' pricing or China collecting your data for 'surveillance'.

https://www.mccarter.com/insights/ftc-surveillance-pricing-study-finds-personal-data-is-used-to-set-individualized-consumer-prices-and-generate-higher-profits-for-companies/

https://www.ipwea.org/insiteblogs/blogs/2026/07/22/connected-cars-fail-on-data-privacy-says-mozilla

They are purposely building surveillance into all vehicles. I’m not sure the Chinese vehicles are going to be much worse.

Agreed. I seem to remember security researchers hacking moving cars on a highway many years ago. Every part has some sort of wireless access, it only takes one weak link.