[axegon_]

I have honestly never trusted VPN providers in any shape or form. I had a university professor back in the early 2010's who said something very accurate: "Proprietary services providing anonymity provide everything but anonymity". I'm far more comfortable running a vps somewhere when I need to. And even then, VPN is kind of an exception since I hate fiddling with the setup(as easy as it may be). For most of my usage, an SSH tunnel as a socks proxy does it all and when I'm done, kill the vps and move on.

[anakaine]

The article doesnt quite match the headline in the way your reply suggests. Trust, in this instance, is more about accidental leakage and installers not tailoring the OS to have Up and Down watchers to apply DNS changes.

It's not about whether the VPN provider can be trusted.

[axegon_]

On the contrary: an accidental leakage is one of the many reasons a VPN provider cannot be trusted. Say I want to hide myself temporarily - which is safer - a VPN provider, having no idea how they handle data, logs and whatnot, or a tiny vps somewhere for half an hour while you need it, get your job done and then nuke it out of existence. The latter would be infinitely harder to compromise if you know what you are doing as opposed to a service that is running 24/7 and having no idea how data is retained.

[alias_neo]

You're missing the point. OP _is_ running their own VPN, the title is misleading, and the article has nothing to do with VPN providers and trusting them.

To quote: > I have my own VPN () - in other uncool words, I set up OpenVPN on a VPS ...

The title should be "I configured my home rolled (Open)VPN server incorrectly and it leaked DNS".

[mr_mitm]

Setting up a VPN using my FritzBox at home together with the Android app wg-tunnel was dead simple. I was really surprised how easy it was. A few clicks in the routers web interface and then scanning the QR code it gave me was all I needed. wg-tunnel has a whitelist of wifis where I don't need a VPN and turns on automatically on all other wifis. A VPS is not necessary in this (and OP's) usecase.

[Hikikomori]

Try reading the article.