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Comment by jlokier

8 days ago

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.

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mystifyingpoi  8 days 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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