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Some reasons: - Hide your real IP address from (small) bad actors (you can't hide from government agencies, but you can hide from random people who wants to bother other people) - Prevent (or make it harder) your ISP from seeing what you do on the internet (what web pages you visit, for how long, etc.) - Reduce the amount of information harvested from your internet activity (though this only works if you do not log in with personal accounts) - Reduce the amount of advertisement you see on the web thanks to the DNS filters provided by the VPN - Access to servers/services from other countries when either someone from your side (ISP/Government) blocks those servers, or when the servers block IP addresses from your country - Help others hide/obfuscate their internet activity by sharing the same exit IP of the VPN server you connect to - Support the infrastructure of the VPN provider - Support others who depend on the VPN provider to do their job (from regular jobs to more dangerous ones like investigative journalism) A VPN is not an invisibility cloak, neither it is a service aimed for wrongdoers. If you are privacy conscious or concerned about it, then it is a nice tool to have, but as with any other tool, you must learn when/how to use it properly.

Hello everyone, I built Gluetun Companion, a self-hosted web dashboard for people running VPN through Gluetun in Docker/homelab setups (UNRAiD friendly), with dedicated AirVPN options. Its purpose is to make choosing and maintaining VPN servers less manual. It benchmarks configured servers through the VPN tunnel, keeps a history of throughput, latency, jitter, packet loss and DNS latency, then helps select or rotate to the most suitable server. It also includes: - AirVPN server catalogue and live load information, - WireGuard and OpenVPN profile support, - server exclusions, including country exclusions, - automatic switching and rotation pools, - port-forward inventory and optional qBittorrent / rTorrent port synchronization, - tracker reachability checks through the VPN, - Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboard, and Discord/Apprise notifications. It is still beta software. I use and test it primarily with AirVPN over WireGuard, so feedbacks would be very welcome. Project and installation instructions: https://github.com/Aerya/Gluetun-Companion UNRAiD template: https://ca.unraid.net/apps/gluetun-companion-0uhgrhz0byhtpv A few screenshots are attached below. Thanks! A.