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ISP junk generator (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is there something that can generate random Internet usage to make the real sites I go to a bit obfuscated?

I'm thinking something that runs on my server, and simply visits a random website. It probably shouldn't actually be random, and some sort of tweaking would be great. Like the ability to have it visit every news site there is. That way the ISP will have a harder time telling my political bias.

The threat model for this is below using a VPN for normal usage, although getting a dedicated VPN IP address is a project for one day.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

As I mentioned I have a server, and I use a VPN to connect always to it. This makes using a paid VPN a bit harder. The dedicated VPN IP should fix this issue but I haven't looked into how difficult that'd be.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Ahh i see.

Yeah it really slims down your VPN choices as having an IP address associated with your account makes it much more identifiable. So some providers wont offer them (such as mullvad).

It also usually costs more. The one I know offers a static IP is express VPN and ive heard Proton has plans on offering it. It looks like PIA offers it too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yup. Tailscale+Mullvad isn't a bad option, but I'd rather not depend on tailscale and a true local connection will always be better. But then you have to pay through tailscale and then more identifiable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

So are you worried about your server's ISP? If so, you could run your own VPN on your server so your traffic to your server would be protected.

That wouldn't protect outgoing traffic, which may be what you're concerned about (i.e. if you're using your server as a SOCKS proxy or something).