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I do not use twitter, so do not care.

But if you use a fake name and fake email, which people should be using on twitter, who cares.

Also if you self host your VPN, how would twitter know. Looks like only people using a commercial VPN will be flagged.



Hosting your VPN is a fair bit of work. Plus, you need residential IP too which you don't really have if you host on any Cloud Provider. I had the same issue and decided to build TunnelBuddy.net so that a friend can share their internet connection with me or vice versa. It is entirely P2P and requires no sign up, no credit card. You download the app, share a code and that's it. It is like TeamViewer, but instead of sharing your screen you share your Internet Connection.


Websites can still guess that an IP is non-residential. There's a difference between an IP at Comcast and an IP at DigitalOcean. This takes some effort to work around.


Self-hosting a VPN is not entirely straightforward. If you rent a server from Hetzner, for example, and your IP address is linked to Hetzner, it's obvious that it's not a genuine residential IP address.

What you need is a VPN that provides a genuine residential IP address. It's possible to do this, but not easy to set up for everyone.


There are tons of services like maxmind that can just tell you the origin of an IP - whether it is a datacenter one or a residential one.




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