So the author doesn't want to cough up the money to buy a VPN but will instead write a custom Tor client that is intentionally weak on anonymity so they can run their own exit node on a VPS they bought. Why not setup Wireguard and use the VPS as a VPN? More power to them, seems like they learned some things and are happy with the results, I just don't get it though.
The main motivation of the author seems to be that Tor is slow, but you can significantly speed it up by manually choosing Tor nodes. For instance, if you pick your three fast nodes within a short distance of you location, then the speed is significantly higher then the default tor settings.
> Thankfully the hosting provider I chose BuyVM happens to be borderline bulletproof, and has no qualms with hosting extremist content. I’ve been a happy customer for a while for hosting tiny networking projects and personal website at good prices, and I was pretty blissfully unaware of their darker side when I bought the service. Luckily their very pro-free speech pro-privacy policies comes in handy for this project
Yeah not awesome, heavy irony in this paragraph. Been looking at some other providers recently with comparable prices, my infrastructure isn’t to complicated to migrate just haven’t had the chance to make the jump.
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