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Honestly self host with physical security. As long as your house isn’t raided your fine.
You could also setup a vps gateway that routes traffic over wireguard into a isolated environment at home. This should be better for privacy.
Iceland
This is what I was going to suggest. The only provider I’m aware of though is https://www.orangewebsite.com/
Oh there’re quite a few. I like flokinet out of all. https://flokinet.is
Switzerland, Iceland, Finland, Spain, Egypt,
Sweden, and some 3rd world countries that don’t really give a shit (though they might give a shit if your country makes them give a shit)Are you serious right now? Protect privacy and free speech by hosting right in the imperial core? Bruh.
Sweden is in the 14 eyes.
Woops. I’ll edit
To really be censorship resistant you have to follow the example of the pirate streaming services. Have servers in multiple places. Multiple domain names. Be resilient to any instance going down.
Any capability the server has to violate user privacy a government has. So ensure you have as few capabilities as possible to violate privacy. If your users are very vulnerable make sure that you don’t have the data to expose them ever.
You can consider hosting in a “safe country” That’s just the beginning. You could make your service available on tor via hidden service address. That way even if users don’t have good operational security themselves you try to protect them from leaking their activity to whoever their vulnerable to
Just wanted to chime in by mentioning i2p. In some ways it’s much better depending on your requirements. For me Java was a dealbreaker but these days i2pd exists.
aka disable any logs or delete them automatically, periodically.
Here is an article that helps a bit with that.
It goes almost without saying that you definitely want to avoid the United States and even more so China, Russia and so forth.
@original_reader @Freez this is from 2019. Is this still actual? Probably not…
Sweden or Switzerland have good laws for this.
Somewhere in South America
My privacy hardening tips are:
Switzerland
Switzerland might still be a good choice, but the government also made some questionable laws which weakens piracy in the recent years.
Yep, my money goes to Switzerland. This message was brought to you by Proton.
Jokes aside, I do really have been using Proton Mail and VPN for quite some time.
Yes, proton is pretty awesome for privacy and security. And it’s also because the Swiss laws has made it possible.