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pazhitnov2022-03-01 17:17:19
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pazhitnov, 2022-03-01 17:17:19

Who are 2ip.ru and how safe is it to check your VPN using this service?

I go to 2ip.ru, I see my provider - Rostelecom (for example) in Chegdomyn. I turn on the VPN, I see - now I'm from Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. Hurrah, it works!

At this time, 2ip threw me a cookie in Chegdomyn, and then read this cookie from Honduras and associated my ip with the ip from which I use the VPN. Given that I, for example, did not use a public VPN, but bought a virtual machine on which I installed openvpn, or wireguard, or even softether, then the correspondence will generally be unambiguous, especially if I use (and I use!) white ip.

It turns out that the value of this resource (2ip.ru), from the point of view of the security forces and those interested, is much higher than one would expect. And it should also be noted that in 80% of Russian-language instructions for installing your own VPN server, the above service is used to check the correctness of the settings.

Isn't it time to sound the alarm?
Are there similar, no less advanced services, but outside the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation?

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Dr. Bacon, 2022-03-01
@bacon

But what about cookies from Yandex, vk and others? There has been no privacy on the Internet for a long time, so don't care VPN or not. Or do you mean something else by "safe"?

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Drno, 2022-03-01
@Drno

VPN does not mean privacy.
VPN means accessing resources on another / from another network
Check on Yandex, Google, speedtest, etc.

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Maxim Grishin, 2022-03-03
@vesper-bot

Use a service that just doesn't know how to save cookies, but can replace user-agent (*hint* curl). A site, for example, icanhazip.com - gives clear text instead of HTML, though it tries to set cookies too ... but if they are simply not accepted ...

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