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by RussianCow 2405 days ago
I run a VPN server via Vultr, and I've wondered if it would be worth the hassle to rotate instances once a week to solve this issue. So, every week, run a script that spins up a new instance, sets up the VPN, and shuts down the old one. If you use DNS to point to the server instead of a static IP address, this can be automated completely without even touching the VPN clients. Hell, if it works well enough, I don't see why you couldn't do this every night.
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I recently saw a comment from someone really dedicated to privacy (I think they said they were a journalist) who scripted this via Streisand. They set up a new instance at the start of each day as part of their normal workflow. So I'm sure it's possible, and maybe not even too much of a hassle once you have the scripting in place.