Like others have said, it’s basically not viable. You can make a VPN to spoof your location to a place where you have control of hardware AND permission to do so, but it’s purposefully not anonymous
It’s easy to create your own OpenVPN server but you won’t be anonymous. You can use services like IPRoyal
Why is a vpn pseudo anonymous?
I wouldn’t make a VPN if you wanna be anonymous on the web. I set up a VPN with Wireguard on a server I own but that’s only so that I can access the server from anywhere in the world, not for privacy. If you make your own VPN, as others have said you’ll be the only person using it, and anything you do can be traced back to the machine your VPN is running on, and then easily to you.
Either a commercial VPN like Mullvad or Tor will probably serve your needs just fine.
Yes? But not really, in terms of what you are thinking it will do for you. Unless your ties to the server are also anonymous. Which is exactly what the VPN providers are providing.
You could make one from your own home, thus allowing you to connect to it and be as protected as you are on your own network anywhere with internet. You’d also have access to any local network resources, and no web filtering if you’re getting around that for whatever reason.
So, yes, you can make your own VPN. But it’s as anonymous as the final connection to the internet is.
If you want VPN for yourself the best option is to spin up a Open VPN server. This could be an appliance such as a raspberry pi or a virtual machine. The best solution would be a hardware firewall such as PFSense. The PFSense OS has a wonderful gui that provides access to several VPN software such as IPSec, OpenVPN, Wiregard, Tinc, etc…
This is a great way to access personal network resources. The VPN server software allows for one to control things such as the listening VPN port. The great benefit to this is bypassing firewall networks by tunneling your traffic through an open port. Typically 443 or 80.
A personal VPN server only encrypts the connection between the device and the server. The server will proxy the internet connection to make it look your internet connection is emminating from the IP of the VPN server.
A concept I have practiced is setting up personal VPN server and configure the LAN to route all traffic that enters from the VPN server to route through a Whonix gateway.
This is what TOR is for.
If you’re trying to get anonymous browsing, why don’t you just use tor? It’s free and better than any VPN. That being said, there is no such thing as “complete” anonymity
I created my own VPN and never looked back. I’m not sure about a platform for Windows however I get mine up on my Raspberry Pi with PIVPN. I also set one up through DD-WRT on my wireless router and it worked perfectly as well. Supposedly but I haven’t set it up yet but DNS over HTTPS is supported as well. Right now I have setup at home through my Raspberry Pi for the encryption, I setup a SMB server across the same connection with PiHole throughout to block unwanted traffic, and I’m sure it could be expanded further to support ESXI or Proxmox to host virtual machines.
A lot of ppl are basically saying it’s not a good idea or not worth it but having a home vpn is good for at least one thing. It can protect from attackers while using public Wi-Fis. Attackers can possibly intercept your packets (like a request for a website) and serve you up their own fake version. SSL mostly helps mitigate this issue, but having a VPN is a big improvement.
Please see this The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity.
you can make one using a digital ocean droplet costs 5 bucks a month and you can get a coupon, pretty good.
you can deploy vpn droplet say on digitalocean.
but not sure if digitalocean can intercept logs of your connections this way
So basically dont be the only one using the vpn? Making it public or setting up a legit company is an easy fix for that.
Well what if you are not planning on doing anything illegal just dont want people to spy on you in daily life?
Vpn over Tor if you go that route. Vpn conceals what you are doing at the entry/exit nodes but won’t conceal where you are located. Tor helps with that but the govt tends to host tor nodes to sniff the traffic.
There is a way to rent space in the cloud and set up a vpn to conceal your location a bit; however, if they track you to the cloud provider you can guarantee they will reveal your account info, so I don’t recommend it.
But if you physically had the vpn server, couldn’t you just erase the logs or bring a hammer to it?
I said “whatever” Out loud I get it though thanks
So a private vpn is virtually the same as a jump box and probably less secure. Makes sense.
Do you know how to create a vpn server from an Android phone, I have to access a website that only allows IP from Qatar. I have tried multiple VPNs but nothing worked. No one has Qatari servers. Is there any way for me because i have a friend in Qatar and he can install any app to share his IP. So is there any way for that?