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Tailscale raises $100M

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854 points gmemstr | 4 comments | 04 May 22 13:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nickysielicki ◴[04 May 22 14:29 UTC] No.31260955[source]▶
Tailscale has a fantastic product, I’ve been extremely happy from day one. If you’re waiting for a weekend to have a few hours to try out Tailscale, don’t, it takes 15 minutes to get every device you own up and running and talking. This is the lowest friction personal VPN to ever exist, and once you see how easy it is for your own devices, you’ll wish you had it at work.

The biggest risk that this company has is that Cloudflare (in all reality) should just buy them or reimplement it. It’s the type of product cloudflare would make, that’s for sure. Being based on open source wireguard, and being just a STUN/TURN server at its core… I’m sure that Tailscale will be the first but maybe not the best.

I’ve been dreaming lately of a tor-like network that’s based loosely on the idea of tailnets. Rather than blockchain bullshit, you’d have a direct ring of trust with friends, and then you could set up access policies to forward packets for people you don’t trust, but who know someone you do trust.

Web3 happens when people can host stuff on their phones, and Tailscale is something that lets you host things on your phone.

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siavosh ◴[04 May 22 14:41 UTC] No.31261130[source]▶
I’m pretty ignorant on this topic, but what are the benefits of having a personal VPN?
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gzer0 ◴[04 May 22 14:50 UTC] No.31261258[source]▶
I am able to route traffic on my mobile device through my home network via the use of their "exit node" option. It allows one of my home devices to act as an exit node for my entire personal tailscale network.

This serves multiple benefits: the main one being that I receive pi-hole filtered ad-free traffic on my mobile device via a Wireguard VPN with my home IP 24/7/365

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Sohcahtoa82 ◴[04 May 22 18:55 UTC] No.31264416[source]▶
What other benefits are there? I use a PiHole to block ads on my phone already, but I do it via a PiHole installed on an EC2 instance that I also use as an IRC bouncer and other things.
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1. Spooky23 ◴[04 May 22 21:14 UTC] No.31265929{3}[source]▶
It’s pretty similar as far as how it works for you.

It may be cheaper to VPN to home vs a cloud server, and you may avoid issues where sites block AWS. You can also securely forward other ports. Sometimes I print or access other services in my house that aren’t internet safe.

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2. Sohcahtoa82 ◴[04 May 22 21:47 UTC] No.31266277[source]▶
I have the PiHole VPN configured so that only DNS lookups go through it. All other traffic is not tunneled. It means I don't get billed for several gigabytes of traffic from AWS and my traffic doesn't come from an AWS IP, but I still get all the ad-blocking benefits of a PiHole.

At home on my desktop, I just use uBlock Origin in my browser.

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3. O_H_E ◴[05 May 22 03:20 UTC] No.31269013[source]▶
oh wow that is cool. I have never heard or thought about putting a pi-hole in the cloud.
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4. Sohcahtoa82 ◴[05 May 22 18:54 UTC] No.31277143{3}[source]▶
It made more sense to me for using a PiHole on my phone. I didn't want to expose a VPN port on my home network, and didn't want to deal with trying to tunnel VPN through SSH.

And the EC2 instance I installed it on was already being used for other toy projects, so it's not like it cost me anything. The additional egress bandwidth is likely fractions of a penny.