> EC2 micro instance on AWS running StrongSwan
Just curious, how many captchas do you solve with this setup daily? Or even IP bans?
I did exactly the same thing once and it was so annoying.
Just curious, how many captchas do you solve with this setup daily? Or even IP bans?
I did exactly the same thing once and it was so annoying.
I set up a VPN on a Digital Ocean instance and got captchas all the time on various websites, especially ones using CloudFlare etc (I’m aware of Privacy Pass but didn’t bother setting it up as it was a temporary thing)
That said, if you're using your own EC2/lightsail instance you won't see as many CAPTCHAs as, say, using a commodity VPN service.
Given you can't detect a VPN per-se (if configured properly) usually the way it works is that the destination node knows you're coming from a source IP from a known VPN-supplier's well-known IP-block.
If you go for this kind of setup (running your own VPN on AWS) you're simply changing your ISP to Amazon. They still might (and probably will) be monitoring egress traffic at the very least to perform any kind of incident analysis.