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    Setting up my own VPN because the logs scare me

    Man I just lost a chunk on a campaign because my traffic got flagged. Again. And it's always some vague log policy from the VPN provider that they 'might' have. Smh. So I'm going self-hosted this time, no more trusting some company's word. Been trying to get OpenVPN running on a Raspberry Pi 4...
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    Setting up proxy rotation Python, my code keeps getting slapped

    Alright so i tried to be smart and write my own proxy rotator in python. Using requests, threading, a list of datacenter IPs from a cheap provider. Script works fine for about 30 minutes then every single request starts getting 403s or timeouts. It's like the target site just waves a flag and...
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    datacenter proxies - my detection rate data from last month

    so ive seen lots of talk about datacenter stuff being useless cause they get flagged all the time. did my own test on a fresh batch just messing around scraping product listings. used 500 ips from some cheap provider cost me like 30 bucks. sent 10k requests to a big ecom site known for good bot...
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    WireGuard on a cheap VPS vs yearly VPN sub - did the math and.

    yo everyone keeps going on about self-hosted wireguard on some cheap vps like 3 bucks a month. privacy first blah blah. so i threw up a hetzner box, followed some guides, got it working. it's fast, no doubt. my wireguard tunnel hits like 650 mbps download. but the bill for data? lol. blew...
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    Torrent vpns: audits mean squat without court cases

    Okay so you want to torrent and you're looking at all those shiny "no logs" claims. Here's the brutal truth. An audit report is just a snapshot, some consultant saying 'yup their code looks good'. Means nothing if the provider hasn't been tested in court. Like actual law enforcement shows up...
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    speed tests - router VPN and app VPN side by side

    ok so i did the tests, got the numbers and now im just lookin at them tryna figure out wtf is goin on. i got a nordvpn sub runnin on an asus rt-ac68u via openvpn client and same sub on my laptop with the native app, wireguard. testing to a server in chicago from here. router vpn got me 85 Mbps...
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    VPN deal season - do you actually get the advertised speed?

    hey guys with all these black friday and cyber monday deals popping up for vpn stuff i gotta ask something. When they say gigabit speeds or unlimited bandwidth on those discounted yearly plans do you actually get that in real life torrenting and streaming? Idk, ymmv but my experience with some...
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    so my DIY openvpn on raspberry pi is leaking IP like a sieve

    ok so i posted before about the glory of self-hosting, cutting out the middleman and all that. well ymmv because this thing is not working right now smh. got it set up following a guide from like 2022, openvpn config looks good i think? but did some tests on ipleak.net and my actual ip is just...
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    My rotating proxy script is hitting captchas after like 50 requests. what's the move?

    so ok so my custom rotating setup is getting screwed by target sites this week. script hits a new ip from the pool, random user agent, some basic header spoofing, decent delays between requests and bam. hit like 50-60 requests and the whole chain turns into a captcha farm. this worked fine for...
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    Tax reporting for international CPA income - anyone got this figured out?

    So i posted about getting my first real check from an overseas CPA network last year. And man, the advice floating around here is just. terrible. People throwing out wild guesses about tax treaties and thresholds like it's nothing. Here's what i actually had to deal with: received payments from...
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    Double VPN speed hit - real numbers for streaming?

    finally got a multi-hop setup working with Netflix US from Europe lol. but man the speed drop is insane. just wanna share some real data and see if anyone else has played around with this. been testing for like two weeks, using NordVPN's double VPN thing and also a self-hosted chain with...
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    Cold outreach email templates that actually get replies?

    honestly alright, I'm gonna cut to it. My open rates are fine but replies are trash. Like 1-2% trash. I'm using Namecheap's email warmup tool, scraping with Scrapebox, personalizing with first name and a mention of their latest blog post - the usual stuff. But my reply rate is stuck. Smh. What's...
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