When I connect to any outline server, whatever requests I make through the server, is that encrypted? Can the person running the vpn see what websites am I making requests to ? I suppose they can’t see any personal info I am entering on websites because the communication is encrypted. But, to summarize, I am curious about whether they can see my ip address and the websites I am accessing ?
I would expect them to see domains associated with websites that you visit. Essentially when using any VPN, you are just moving the trust away from your ISP to somewhere else. Whether they are any more trustworthy or not, that is your call.
I run my own VPN server in the cloud. It has PiHole on it and I see all domains it has communicated with and IP addresses of the connected devices. I don’t care, only for diagnostics as to what is in there. I trust that those who use it may be wary of what I see so will use it for the case that it is needed for.
I don’t know off the back of that what the VPS provider would see. I just have a virtual machine there doing all of this.
In the case of Outline, the DNS is set to 1.1.1.1 I guess. Is there a way to use my own DNs server? Outline works great but unable to block annoying ads and block access to certain sites without setting a custom DNS. How others are using Outline?
If I am not wrong, pi-hole acts just a machine which you can connect to when you host it somewhere.
I have heard that the relay nodes in the Tor Network cannot see the in-and-out ip addresses or the data being relayed. I was hoping there would be a similar if not exact level of privacy when using a vpn server like outline.
did you get a answer to this question?
Ahh okay, I wasn’t so clear. So yes, my VPS has PiVPN on it and PiHole installed. That way I get the benefits of privacy over VPN to my own server which runs PiHole. All I was saying is that whatever VPN you connect to, someone will have a way to watch the traffic and figure things out. Just something we have to accept I think.