[HN Gopher] How to hide your IP address: a field guide to VPNs, ... ___________________________________________________________________ How to hide your IP address: a field guide to VPNs, proxies, & traffic relaying Author : r422 Score : 30 points Date : 2022-10-17 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (educatedguesswork.org) (TXT) w3m dump (educatedguesswork.org) | ekr____ wrote: | Post author here. Happy to answer questions, take criticisms, | etc. | gnabgib wrote: | Why do you sometimes post your educatedguesswork.org blog posts | via the r422 user? | ekr___ wrote: | ekr____ wrote: | It's not me. | wolverine876 wrote: | It's invaluable that someone with expertise is providing the | public with this knowledge; thank you. There is too much | misinformation out there. | | I wonder if a tl;dr with concrete advice in non-technical | language would reach a much wider audience. I know the | technology professionally, I already understand almost | everything in the article (that I read), and I'm not sure what | you are recommending - Tor? Apple's proxy service (whatever | they call it)? I think Brave offers something now? Firefox VPN? | | Also, another reason "even the best system provides only | limited protection" is that there are many other ways to track | people. I know the article is about IP addresses, but a non- | technical reader might not grasp that IPs are only one piece of | a larger puzzle. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-17 23:00 UTC)