Would internet services be subject to, let’s say Swiss privacy laws, if you were connected to a Swiss server from your VPN? And if they do, would it make that much of a difference that it’s worth the occasional hassle of having to change the language and region?
The legal policy questions of your exit nodes are interesting, but other people already spoken to that.
Your exit note impacts your latency, packet loss, and browser experience. The more you increase your round trip time the slower your experience becomes.
Another point to browser experience would be local laws / blocked content.
Connecting to a country that has blocked some content will make it so that you can’t see that content. So if you want to read an article and an authoritarian government doesn’t want that, you’re better off connecting to some other place.
A question from me:
Is there a map to show the connections between countries?
I’m curious what the latency is like from my city to other parts of the world, and it would be cool to try and explain the data with where the undersea cables are. It matters for VPNs, but also things like games and video calls.
https://ping.mudfish.net/
You basically want to run a ping test, against a variety of endpoints globally. And then look at the graph to see if there’s any outliers or interesting ones. And you will find some. Not all routing is the most efficient.