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Fair comment on getting a residential IP. I'm not necessarily looking down on commercial VPN providers. I do think a lot of their users don't understand the transfer of trust they are engaging in. As long as you understand that then great.

Another benefit is that your traffic can be pooled with other users coming from an exit IP which can be useful (as opposed from a single endpoint you control as I wrote about in this article). Tradeoffs.

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But there is also the transfer of trust to the VPS provider, no?

The cloud provider may have a less favorable privacy policy.

I think you touch on a valid point: we should be focusing less on where our traffic egresses and more on ensuring all of our traffic is end-to-end encrypted as much as possible, as well as ensuring any "meta data" (i.e. DNS) is encrypted too.

This is arguably too narrow a way to think about this, as where you traffic egresses can directly affect what sites or services will work - this isn't hypothetical. Both are important!

If you need access to regional services, a common VPN use case and one outlined in the original article, its the single most important factor.

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