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>>mmaria+(OP)
Since it's about VPNs - what are good VPNs for someone looking for safety/privacy but not anonymity or even IP hiding?

Not even for streaming. But for general "safety while on the Internet" when the devices (Mac, iPhone) are mostly on public or not-so-secure WiFi (at the residence or on the go). Plan is to keep it always ON or almost always ON.

Not necessarily for the UK.

(Other than Mullvad)

>>crossr+P01
The best VPN is to host your own. I used Digital Ocean. They have preconfigured droplet images for OpenVPN access server. The droplet even serves a client pre-configured with the connection settings.

It took me all of 10 minutes to set up.

>>jnwats+z21
A personal cloud VM is very bad VPN for some purposes.

The static IP address, recorded by every site you visit, is directly linked back to you personally, and only you.

>>jlokie+8w1
You can recreate the instance every 60 minutes, I've tried such approach once. But such setup is useless anyway, most services block datacenter traffic by default.