I've been curious about VPNs for sometime but unfortunately am still confused by the following questions:
- my ISP can still see all of my traffic because my RPi would talk to my router which has to exit my network at some point, right?
- if I was on the East coast and wanted, say, YoutubeTV to believe I was on the West coast I would need to have my client (laptop, would be cool if I could get my Roku or TV to do this) pointed to my RPi on the other coast. Is that how it works?
1. Yes, other than other things that are self-encrypted eg. HTTPS. You would need to host the VPN somewhere else (eg. Cloud hosting, but that brings issues with many sites having blacklisted your IP range) if you still don't trust your ISP. I imagine this VPN solution is primarily for keeping your home connection's IP address while on a mobile network, or where you're on public wifi and really don't trust the network operator.
2. Yes, but be wary about actually doing this; I can't find any cases but YouTube TV (or the Google session security system itself) might get suspicious about constantly jumping between the east and west coast.
- my ISP can still see all of my traffic because my RPi would talk to my router which has to exit my network at some point, right?
- if I was on the East coast and wanted, say, YoutubeTV to believe I was on the West coast I would need to have my client (laptop, would be cool if I could get my Roku or TV to do this) pointed to my RPi on the other coast. Is that how it works?