the internet is becoming increasingly hostile towards VPNs

Last week, I installed OpenVPN on a server I was already renting for file backups, so I could "surf the seas" and download some music from a retired Myspace musician that doesn't offer his music for sale and is only available through Spotify. Maybe this is wrong on my part, but seriously, if you have a product that I would gladly pay money for, and only offer it through a subscription service, then fuck you I'm finding other means. I also have this beef with Pimsleur, a subscription-based, language-learning audiobook site. I could either pay an egregious monthly fee, or find their audiobooks at my local library and rip them from there. Just offer the audio files as a product I can purchase and own! What is so hard about this! Anyway, that's not what this blog is about. I decided to keep the VPN installed, even though I was finished using it. I figured I would just leave the VPN enabled on my personal laptop and phone and see how I liked it, but it turns out, browsing the Internet is…