So the author doesn't want to cough up the money to buy a VPN but will instead write a custom Tor client that is intentionally weak on anonymity so they can run their own exit node on a VPS they bought. Why not setup Wireguard and use the VPS as a VPN? More power to them, seems like they learned some things and are happy with the results, I just don't get it though.
I call it āThe Broke College Student Syndrome.ā
Most of us did stuff like this when we were younger.
For starters, we were broke. I mean, we didnāt have enough extra cash to pay for something we knew we could probably get for free. Back then, having a credit card in college was basically a ārich kidā thing. The money we had was whatever was in our pockets, maybe stashed under a pillow, or saved in a piggy bank. These days, kids are more āmodern,ā so the idea of not having a card paid for by mom or dad, or at least some extra cash, sounds ridiculous. But thatās how it was for a lot of us.
So Iād constantly look for ways around paying, because I genuinely couldnāt afford it. Think learning C just to write a keygen.exe and bypass license checks, doing in-memory hex edits to tweak games and give myself more virtual coins, or forking Tor to get single-hop proxy connections.
So the author doesn't want to cough up the money to buy a VPN but will instead write a custom Tor client that is intentionally weak on anonymity so they can run their own exit node on a VPS they bought. Why not setup Wireguard and use the VPS as a VPN? More power to them, seems like they learned some things and are happy with the results, I just don't get it though.
I call it āThe Broke College Student Syndrome.ā
Most of us did stuff like this when we were younger.
For starters, we were broke. I mean, we didnāt have enough extra cash to pay for something we knew we could probably get for free. Back then, having a credit card in college was basically a ārich kidā thing. The money we had was whatever was in our pockets, maybe stashed under a pillow, or saved in a piggy bank. These days, kids are more āmodern,ā so the idea of not having a card paid for by mom or dad, or at least some extra cash, sounds ridiculous. But thatās how it was for a lot of us.
So Iād constantly look for ways around paying, because I genuinely couldnāt afford it. Think learning C just to write a keygen.exe and bypass license checks, doing in-memory hex edits to tweak games and give myself more virtual coins, or forking Tor to get single-hop proxy connections.
Good olātimes.
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