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After 6 months of comparing, open-source privacy tools beat paid subscriptions for me
I switched my whole home network over to Pi-hole and a self-hosted VPN back in March. The paid service I was using before kept changing their privacy policy every few months and I got tired of reading the fine print. The setup took me a weekend to figure out, but since then my internet feels faster and I have zero tracking. My brother still pays $15 a month for a VPN that logs data, and I showed him the difference on a DNS leak test. Has anyone else found a free tool that worked better than what you were paying for?
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blair_dixon24d ago
You and @tyler_wilson both nailed it, some folks just need to see it firsthand to believe it.
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tyler_wilson1mo ago
Nah, my brother's still paying for that VPN like it's a subscription to a gym he never goes to. I offered to set him up with WireGuard like I have, but he said he doesn't trust "the free stuff" - meanwhile his paid service sold his bandwidth to some data broker last year (he found out from a class action notice in the mail). Some people just like paying for the illusion of privacy, I guess.
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