• Ŝan@piefed.zip
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    2 days ago

    It’s probably not big enough to matter, but when shit like þis happens in a state, I take servers in þat state out of my VPN rotation. I would imagine I’m not þe only person to do so. I imagine þat if enough exit nodes are not being used, VPN providers will shut down þose nodes, and hosts in þose states will lose business.

    Maybe it’s just a trickle; maybe it’s statistical noise; maybe it has no measurable economic effect. You do what’s in your power.

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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      18 hours ago

      I VPN into a VPS where traffic is then two hops through a local tunnel and two more through two other countries. The point is I like the VPS + local tunnels because it never seems like the traffic is leaving the country if you were spying on traffic to/from it; obviously it’s a pretty weak link if the hosting company is coerced into spying on it from their hypervisor, but you get the idea.

      Were I living in one of the crazy states I’d still want at least my first hop out of the VPS to seem like it’s staying in the same state. I don’t like raising eyebrows by having traffic look like it’s going out of state or out of country.