Wow, OK. How does this work? Does it monitor swarms and log the IPs?

Ah, thanks, that is a great tool

Thanks, that are some good tips, I will make sure to follow. I’m planing to set up a VM in my homelab for this.

Just read about i2p for the first time. How slow is the download speed in real life? I could live with slow speeds, as long as it doesn’t get ridiculously slow.

Ah, thanks. I will definitely look further into that. Doing things in Docker containers is something I already do for many other self hosted services

Thats what I have in my home network. Upstream is currently cloudflares 1.1.1.1

Crypto or cash VPNs being more suspicious for law enforcement is also a good point

XD cash over mail, ok. But I guess for only a couple of euros that is worth a try. They seem to be located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Might try that. Honestly their website is really based. Thats for the suggestion with cash over mail.

For what would I need port forwarding?

I’m having doubts about the VPN provider not logging. To trust them is a decision to be made. For simple things (like masking my internet usage when in a public wifi) I use my own OpenVPN server on my VPS. Though I cannot use this for piracy, since I’m the only user and it is directly liked to my name and address (through my VPS hoster).

About DNS: When I setup the VPN, the DNS queries should also go through there, right? Should I additionally look into DNS Sec? For my complete home network I already ditched the ISPs DNS server (currently using cloudflares 1.1.1.1). I probably would setup a VM in my NUC, that I got recently, for the services.

Thanks for your advice. I’m thinking about this for quite a while now. When I start sailing, I want to be prepared. Currently I’m collecting all the information. Then I will decide, if I want to try it.

Hey fellow german :D

Yeah, trusting the VPN provider to not log is a decision I was hesitant to make. Do you take precautions when paying for the VPN service, like paying with crypto or similar? I guess easiest would be paying via paypal or similar, but is that OK for opsec?

I guess I have to do a bit more research about trackers, which and how to use them. Thats for sharing your setup.