What VPN have you switched to after the Mullvad situation. I have looked at nym and ivpn. But don’t know if they are any good.

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      7 hours ago

      How does a selfhosted VPN work? I thought the purpose was to offload the connection so the ISP only saw the company IP…which is this case is an IP toed to your location?

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        You can benefit from both a commercial VPN provider as well as at-home hosted.

        My Asus WRT router, which I flashed with Merlin firmware, has a feature called “VPN Director”, I can connect to 5 different VPN clients at a time and forward my devices connections individually through each one.

        My Asus router also has the option to host a WireGuard Server which i then forward through one of the VPN clients with the VPN director.

        Essentially creating a multi-hop network, the flow goes a little like such;

        Device -> WireGuard Tunnel -> Home Network -> WireGuard Tunnel -> Commercial VPN Server

        The commercial VPN is my endpoint therefore what the internet sees when I browse however I also benefit from my PiHole which handles my DNS queries an blocklists.