You don't want to do this if you want to pirate stuff. If you spin up an openvpn or whatever on common cheap hosting providers and they get a DCMA they will drop you without a second thought. They also wouldn't hesitate to turn over your info to legal firms (if asked) so you could be sued as their business is not in obfuscating identities and web traffic and they frankly do not want such people using their networks and computing resources and resent your presence.
Using a hosted VPN on digitalocean or amazon or whatever has its uses. If you're doing 100% legal things that may make people target you, for example competitive gaming where people might want to DDOS you to boot you offline to cause you to lose because of gamer rage OR you have a dynamic IP address and want to tunnel into your home network remotely OR you're using p2p applications that don't break any laws but reveal your IP and you want to conceal that OR you want to keep websites you browse from knowing your location (but not identifying and tracking you over time as this kind of thing won't prevent it as you still have a single IP even though it's corporate bloc rather than residential) then such a set-up can be useful to you.
You don't want to do this if you want to pirate stuff. If you spin up an openvpn or whatever on common cheap hosting providers and they get a DCMA they will drop you without a second thought. They also wouldn't hesitate to turn over your info to legal firms (if asked) so you could be sued as their business is not in obfuscating identities and web traffic and they frankly do not want such people using their networks and computing resources and resent your presence.
Using a hosted VPN on digitalocean or amazon or whatever has its uses. If you're doing 100% legal things that may make people target you, for example competitive gaming where people might want to DDOS you to boot you offline to cause you to lose because of gamer rage OR you have a dynamic IP address and want to tunnel into your home network remotely OR you're using p2p applications that don't break any laws but reveal your IP and you want to conceal that OR you want to keep websites you browse from knowing your location (but not identifying and tracking you over time as this kind of thing won't prevent it as you still have a single IP even though it's corporate bloc rather than residential) then such a set-up can be useful to you.
yea that's fair enough i guess