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		jlokier 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules ki... A personal cloud VM is very bad VPN for some purposes. The static IP address, recorded by every site you visit, is directly linked back to you personally, and only you.

mystifyingpoi 9 months ago [–]

You can recreate the instance every 60 minutes, I've tried such approach once. But such setup is useless anyway, most services block datacenter traffic by default.

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