Which VPN Services Keep You Anonymous in 2017?
Thankfully HN is not a VPN discussion site, so I have the freedom to say this:<p>The VPN market is completely artificial. You can completely sidestep all the inflation by getting your own VPS or server. I&#x27;ve found this is tons cheaper, and you have complete control over the hosting provider. I can recommend Feral or UrDN myself; I&#x27;ve heard very good things about both, they are worth your time checking out. I also have good but limited personal experience with Contabo; they generally have admirably high CPU and network load tolerance, but they <i>are</i> in Germany. For 100.00% assurance find somewhere in Switzerland.<p>Configuring OpenVPN (or SoftEther if that floats your boat) yourself also lets you remove the server-sent default route stuff, which makes the process of configuring your own local routing setup a little more elegant. (It also teaches you a lot!)<p>There&#x27;s also the massive benefit that because the VPN machine itself is (presumably) just a Linux box, you can run Tor, Freenet, Tox, etc etc on the machine, and benefit from that connectivity everywhere - while completely moving those traffic profiles away from yourself. Win!<p>Also: it&#x27;s <i>VERY</i> easy to only run specific applications over the VPN link. I did this for a friend running FreeBSD a few months ago using two FIBs.