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we all know how incredibly frustrating it is to be locked out of sites and apps

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you might rely on for work or pleasure Tik Tok The Hub and many other services

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are being restricted or outright banned in parts of the world but don't fret for

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there is a Shining Light in the darkness the VPN say a website is blocking users

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in your country by connecting to a VPN in a different country that website will

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think you're there and boom no more block and today we're going to show you

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a few ways to do just that level one where all you need is a credit card

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level two where you get to set up your own VPN and don't worry it's easy and

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then there's my favorite level three where I tell you about our sponsor next

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Link in the video description

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before you decide how you're going to tackle a VPN it's important to

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understand why you need one in the first place and I figure there's four main use

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cases first getting around throttling blocking or banss like your school or

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government blocking websites accessing region locked content like a different

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country's Netflix Library obscuring your IP address for privacy or torrenting

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legal stuff like Linux isos of course and securely accessing a remote Network

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like your home or business from somewhere else if you fall into any of

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the first three categories especially torrenting and you want the easiest

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solution there's level one using one of the many public VPN providers our

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personal favorite is private internet access and all you've got to do to get

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these going is sign up download their client and hit connect boring whoa whoa

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whoo there's nothing wrong with taking the easy route but it doesn't mean

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you're not in control of your data and even a VPN provider who's trustworthy

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today could change their behavior in the future for instance if they got bought

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out by a different company so let's talk level two where you get to your very own

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private VPN server while there just about a million different ways to skin

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this cat the setup I'm going to show you today isn't scary requires virtually

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zero maintenance and puts you in control and you might even learn something along

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the way like this disclaimer anything we show you today is purely in the interest

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of education and privacy we aren't condoning or recommending piracy bypassing legislative banss or anything

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similar the illegal implications of your actions are your own responsibility

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thanks Riley if you're following along at home you're going to want to check out the GitHub repo we have linked down

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in the description because that's where you're going to find all the necessary files along with some step-by-step

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instructions in case you get lost Public vpns Work by tunneling your internet

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traffic through a dedicated computer in a Data Center and replace your IP

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address along the way that's the part that hides your location and we're going

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to do basically the same thing by renting a small piece of a computer from

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a cloud hosting provider they have data centers all over the world with

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thousands of servers that are split up into what they call vpss or virtual

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private servers with the magic of virtualization if you've seen has talked

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about virtual machines before it's the exact same thing if you're comfortable

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using a Linux command line you should be able to replicate our setup with

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virtually any cloud provider but if you're not and for the sake of

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Simplicity we're going to be using vulture they're not a sponsor but we had

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great results with their high frequency tier so start by signing up there and

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we'll come back to it in a sec if we're being honest traditionally setting up a

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VPN it's complicated and it requires maintenance to keep things secure and

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reliable so instead of walking you through how to do all of that and keep

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it maintained we we distilled the entire setup down into a single config file

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literally this these 100ish lines contain all the information our server

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needs to set up the VPN create a firewall to keep it secure and handle

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automatic updates for both the operating system and the VPN software which is

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called tail scale it has a ton of cool features but most importantly for us it

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makes the setup much easier and it allows us to use existing accounts like

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Google or GitHub to log in and the free plan is good for three users or 100

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clients so good there once you're logged into tail scale head to the key section

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of the settings and generate an off key which is basically a fancy password our

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VPN server is going to use to log in that o key has to make its way into the

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config file I showed you earlier but that can be tricky and kind of easy to

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screw up so we made a custom tool which will be linked in the GitHub that you

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can paste your key into and then it'll spit out a config ready to go for the

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Nerds out there who want to be able to remote into the machine you'll probably want to add an SSH key but if you don't

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know what that means just skip this step so we've got our VPN software and we've

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got a config file now we need to get them on vulture and that's where flat

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car a lightweight operating system built for high security and more importantly

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low maintenance comes into play you see it's like it's a little train car with

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containers on it the container that's our VPN anyways back on vulture click

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deploy new server and select the region you want to use if you're not trying to

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get around region restrictions you can pick whatever region is closest to you

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if you are pick whatever region is closest to you in an area that doesn't

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have those restrictions now there are a lot of plans to choose from but we found

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these shared CPU highfrequency ones to be the best bang for your buck

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specifically the $6 a month base plan which includes a terabyte of bandwidth

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per month and can handle gigabit speeds without issue you might be able to make

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it work with cheaper tier so let us know down in the description how that goes

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disable automatic backup since we won't be storing any data on the machine

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select the stable version of flat car container Linux and then select Cloud

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init user data and that's where you're going to be pasting the configuration we

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generated earlier hit deploy and while we're wai waiting for the VPN server to

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show up in tail scale's dashboard it's a great time to download tail scale on

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whatever device you want to use your VPN with so go to their website hit download

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install and then once it's installed log in if you're on macOS you have to agree

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to a few system prompts but once that's done it should just connect once you're

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logged in you should see your client in the tail scale dashboard and hopefully

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by now also your VPN server which we have to make a few changes to First you

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want to go into edit route settings and then select use as exit node this is

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going to allow us to Tunnel our client's traffic to the VPN server and then you

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want to disable key expiry and you might also want to do this for your client as

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well if you don't do this after 180 days the VPN server will stop being able to

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connect to tailscale and just stop working as a VPN assuming you've done

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everything correctly you should have yourself a functioning self-updating bpn

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server and I'm sure you did great but now is a good time to check our work so

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open up command prompt or terminal if you're on macOS like me and run ping

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VPN server if everything's working you should see responses with the latency

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listed and if it's not well go back a few steps and make sure you've followed

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everything correctly assuming this is working you're then going to want to run

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tail scale status which if you're on macOS is a little bit more complicated I'll

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just copy paste that boom status and you

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should see Direct in the response that means you're making a direct connection

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to the VPN server if you see relay here instead you might have a funky or

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restrictive firewall that's blocking the connection and you can try asking for

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help on the LTT Forum or Discord server if all looks good like this W deskpad

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from LTT Store.com you can go ahead and finally try it out so go to tail scale

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in your taskbar select exit nodes and then click on VPN server at this point

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we're now tunneling our own traffic through our very own VPN server assuming

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we still have internet let me try pinging ping hey it's still working sick

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thanks we just have to try it out let's go what is my IP

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address that's kind of the easiest way to figure it out hey I see an IP address

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that's different than the network that I'm actually on and you can see our ISP

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shows as vulture Holdings great job now

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you should only have to select the exit node once per device it should remember

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the settings but if you're ever unsure it does actually change the icon in the

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taskbar or you can use a website like I just showed you to check your external

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IP address now this setup can work great if your goal is to better protect your

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privacy or to get around throttling or region blocks and at this point you can

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go ahead and test it out but if you're trying to get around a potential Tik Tok

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ban or maybe another app for instance you might still be locked out since some

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of these services use other things to determine your location like the App

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Store region you downloaded from sometimes GPS location or maybe even

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your account billing information if that's the case you can try changing

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your app store region and redownloading for instance but if you can't get that

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to work the web version in a web page on your computer or your phone should still

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work now if you're trying to use another country's Netflix Library they like most

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streaming services aggressively block hosting VPN and data center related IP

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addresses so this setup probably won't work your best bet is one of the more

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streaming oriented public VPN providers or if you happen to have a friend in the

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country of choice hosting a VPN at their house could also be a workable solution

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what's less workable is torrenting I mentioned earlier that torrenting is a

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great use case for public vpns that's because whether you're trying to avoid

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dmca notices or circumvent ISP throttling practically all big cloud

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providers will for forward abuse reports from your totally legal Torance directly

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to you and depending on their terms of service they might even suspend your

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server there are hosting companies that operate in countries that don't abide by

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the dmca and therefore don't care so if you're looking for that Google is your

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friend but you may have to get a little bit more manual on the setup now if you

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fall into the last Camp of wanting to remotely access your home or business

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Network without having to port forward like to check security cameras or stream

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video games or Hell run a Minecraft server you you can easily do that with

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tail scale no VPS required and therefore for free just install the tail scale

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client directly on the device you want to access like say your Minecraft server

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and then on your Remote device and log them into the same account you can even

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run it in subnet routing mode and share services on other devices or even your

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entire network just keep in mind that by default tail scale doesn't block any

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connections within the little tail scale Network so if you do explore it we

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recommend locking things down with their access control rules especially if

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inviting your friends put that all together and assuming you didn't take the easy route in just a few minutes

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you've got your very own low maintenance automatically updating VPN server that's

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easily capable of reaching full gigabit speeds where you're in control of your

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