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The EU prepares ground for wider data retention – and VPN providers are among the targets
(www.techradar.com)
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I'm at a loss as to what to do should Mullvad fall to this shit. I could try something self hostable but I'm really not that skilled with that kind of thing.
Any suggestions?
Mullvad will need to move to a new country with a different legislation. iVPN HQ is based on Gibraltar to escape German legislation.
Mullvad is already a honeypot
I'm not sure if this changes anything for ones like airvpn but if so we'll just fight back with stuff like Tor, I guess
I'm self-hosting an OpenVPN instance on a Digital Ocean droplet in Amsterdam. I built it from the ground up several years ago, looks WAY easier now.
https://openvpn.net/as-docs/digitalocean.html#digitalocean-vpn-server-guide-for-droplet-and-access-server
Haven't used that particular doc, but what they had posted when I built mine was the clearest, most complete tech documentation I've ever followed. Big fan of Digital Ocean! Think I'm paying <$7/mo. for the server?
Not necessary, but if you want a domain name to point to karashta.whatever.name, NameCheap is my go-to registrar. Like Digital Ocean, cheap and comes with top-notch tech support.
I've eventually switched from NameCheap to Cloudfare, because they kept drastically raising my email domain price.
Cloudfare is one of the few (not sure if the only one) who has guaranteed wholesale prices (as in, the prices set by the tld owner), with nothing added on top. I moved my domain over, and I saved around 15$ a month.
The best thing to do is buy a domain in some other registrar, like NameCheap, because they will give you the domain for cheaper than wholesale (and then raise your price by a lot in the next few years, way above wholesale). So I just buy it cheap, and once the next renewal is higher than wholesale, I move it over to Cloudfare and keep it there.