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I mean, technically you can obviously do that, but you are then left with a single server that you're paying for, which can easily be traced back to you

The point is that your connection is going through another endpoint. If you still give up your identity through other means (ie. "Hi I'm Peter"), this is a problem all VPNs will have.

Privacy aside, you miss out on all of the other features the VPN service can offer you - such as more than a single location.

Can buy your VM anywhere you like, even have multiple.

Outside of our normal jobs we were still doing 8+ hours per night and weekends for the last two years. I would hardly say it is easy-money.

Genuinely curious, doing what? Please be specific.

That seems like a tremendous amount of time to be trying to work out an already solved solution. Let the million other VPN services be evidence to the fact that it really isn't that hard.

You can have your own VPN in seconds, just run a quick Github script to setup WireGuard and pay for a VM on a cloud provider. VPN services are quite trivial and that is why there are a million of them (all will tell you that they are unique).

I have no idea how this pure advertisement AMA can even exist on Reddit. There is no point to this guy's post other than to sell you this copy-paste formula of a business.

Unfortunately, for him I am pretty sure the VPN easy-money train has long passed, as it has been every other youtube Ad for the past 5 years.