Dedicated IP addresses

[tungsten2 0]

Hello,
Does AirvPN offer a dedicated IP address that i can buy?
This offers a more reliable way of logining into some website that block known VPN ranges.

thanks

[OpenSourcerer 1363]

Dedicated IPs defeat the purpose of a good public VPN: Blending in with hundreds of other users. If you see a "privacy" VPN offering dedicated IPs, run; I mean, not towards them.
 

2 hours ago, tungsten2 said:

This offers a more reliable way of logining into some website that block known VPN ranges.

You can always set up your own VPN on some VPS host, the IP of which almost surely won't be blocked anywhere.

[trott3r 6]

1 hour ago, OpenSourcerer said:

Dedicated IPs defeat the purpose of a good public VPN: Blending in with hundreds of other users. If you see a "privacy" VPN offering dedicated IPs, run; I mean, not towards them.
 

You can always set up your own VPN on some VPS host, the IP of which almost surely won't be blocked anywhere.
 

It is only something to use when signing in to say amazon when you are blocked.
After you are done with the web site go back to the hundreds of users ip addresses.

Michael bazzel covers it in his latest podcast if people are interested.

[OpenSourcerer 1363]

3 hours ago, trott3r said:

It is only something to use when signing in to say amazon when you are blocked.

The paradox with this sentence is that with an Amazon account it is already known who you and what your interests are. An anonymizer won't make you more anonymous, it just adds another data point to Amazon's targeting: "VPN user, interested in privacy products". I thought we're here to avoid such finger-pointing?

Even worse: On reconnect with the internet your ISP may assign your router a new v4 address and a new v6 prefix. But if you connect to a VPN and you're getting assigned the same dedicated IP over and over again (it never changes, and you're the only user), you paradoxically make yourself better trackable. This can't possibly be in your best interest.

Even if you argue that shared IPs are more likely to be blocked, remember that some services block entire subnets, even entire data centers.

[trott3r 6]

14 hours ago, OpenSourcerer said:

The paradox with this sentence is that with an Amazon account it is already known who you and what your interests are. An anonymizer won't make you more anonymous, it just adds another data point to Amazon's targeting: "VPN user, interested in privacy products". I thought we're here to avoid such finger-pointing?

Even worse: On reconnect with the internet your ISP may assign your router a new v4 address and a new v6 prefix. But if you connect to a VPN and you're getting assigned the same dedicated IP over and over again (it never changes, and you're the only user), you paradoxically make yourself better trackable. This can't possibly be in your best interest.

Even if you argue that shared IPs are more likely to be blocked, remember that some services block entire subnets, even entire data centers.

"The paradox with this sentence is that with an Amazon account it is already known who you and what your interests are. An anonymizer won't make you more anonymous, it just adds another data point to Amazon's targeting: "VPN user, interested in privacy products". I thought we're here to avoid such finger-pointing?"

that will depend on how anonymous your amazon account is.
Gift cards and a drop box are possible with an amazon account.

"Even worse: On reconnect with the internet your ISP may assign your router a new v4 address and a new v6 prefix. But if you connect to a VPN and you're getting assigned the same dedicated IP over and over again (it never changes, and you're the only user), you paradoxically make yourself better trackable. This can't possibly be in your best interest."

Dont you just reconnect with the vpn thus there is no change of the isps ip address?
The dedicated vpn ip is only for exceptional circumstance otherwise as you said you are more trackable.

"Even if you argue that shared IPs are more likely to be blocked, remember that some services block entire subnets, even entire data centers."

The vpn dedicated ips are not in the same  ip ranges that are available to normal (block ip) customers.


 

[OpenSourcerer 1363]

2 hours ago, trott3r said:

The dedicated vpn ip is only for exceptional circumstance otherwise as you said you are more trackable.

There are many ways to achieve this "exceptional curcumstance" on your local machine without renting dedicated IP addresses, including routing traffic through your ISP. It's not like everything sent over that line is cleartext, you know…
 

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The vpn dedicated ips are not in the same  ip ranges that are available to normal (block ip) customers.

Still belonging to the same org, so little difference.