I find them to be. They usually focus on piracy trends and activities (eg, ACE or Rights Alliance) but they occasionally include some privacy stuff that is interesting reading as well. If you look at some of their lawsuit related news, you'll often see the related legal documents. Sometimes they're also attacked (and cited) by the anti-piracy agencies.

Pretty interesting read!

So what are the advantages of WG over OVPN? Better security?

I'm just a boring American. :)

How much bandwidth would a server router take up when we are streaming? Granted, it would most likely be connected to a fiber internet connection, but I don't want it to be a bandwidth hog--even if most of our viewing would occur in the middle of the night in Sweden.

Wireguard code is supposed to be simpler and thus faster and in theory, more secure. At a guess, bocastephen was likely connected to a service that was overloaded. Most commercial VPN providers are currently still using OVPN and haven't dedicated as many resources to WG just yet. It's interesting how some IT moves at lightning speeds yet others move slower than a snail's pace.

Depends on the video stream, but basically a little over double (in + out + encryption overhead) of what it would normally be. One thing you have to keep in mind, residential bandwidth is often not symmetrical. You may have 100gbit download and 30gbit upload. For most people, that's plenty. But if you are re-streaming multiple things, that could be an issue.

I am using OVPN on my home router and just returned from Spain where I had a Vodafone ES SIM card with 5G access.

In the US that SIM roams on AT&T 5G.

At my home that connection is getting 530/90 speeds. But turn on the OVPN and that becomes 30/12, because my Comcast home connection upload is only about 30 Mbps upload.

I use PiVPN (along with PiHole for ad blocking). You get the option of using OpenVPN or WireGuard (I use WireGuard). Whenever I'm away, I just connect to that, and it appears that I'm in the UK. So, I get BBC iPlayer / ITVx without issue.

It doesn't have to be installed onto a RPI, mine is running on a an Intel NUC with Ubuntu.

Wireguard’s code base is on the order of 4000 lines, while OpenVPN’s + its dependencies is a few hundred thousand lines. A smaller code base is easier to understand and offers fewer ways to make mistakes, which is what can lead to security issues.

WireGuard is faster than OpenVPN both because of its simpler design and because it defaults to using more modern protocols that are supported in hardware and therefore faster.

Are WG clients common now?

Or are WG servers supported in a lot of routers?

I know major VPN providers provide at least some level of WG, but most users are still on OVPN. This should change if/once providers use WG as the default rather than the experimental agent/client. Much different for enterprise level stuff. That'll take years to happen as it's a whole hardware swap for many of them (although as things become EOL, maybe not....)

Does anyone here use VPNs to find cheaper reservations? I heard it's a thing but haven't found anyone who actually uses one for that. I'm not doing anything naught on the 'net, so I just VPN back to my office's VPN or my home VPN.

I have heard about this, but I have never seen any real-life examples.

The travel vloggers flog this every chance they get. But I would warn against it. Sure you might save a few bucks if you find the right country to buy from (NOTE, you could be spending a lot of time looking)... but depending on your usage pattern, you could get your card(s) flagged for suspicious behaviour and locked if you're not careful. You might also get caught in a conversion rate that negates any savings.

I personally value my time more than the majority of any savings that might be had (usually not that much).

This actually happened to me last week. Citi blocked my transaction in Canada and I had to immediately call the fraud department. Thank god T-Mobile provides free calling within North America.

Canada isn't as bad or exotic. A long time ago, I had my banking card locked while in China trying to withdraw cash (from a banking machine inside a physical bank) and that was after I had called before leaving saying I would be in China (I even named the cities I would be in) between xx and yy. In my case, I was lucky that I had Skype and it was functional (Google and the other services were already banned) so I made the call via coffeeshop wifi. Not the greatest solution, but the other possibilities weren't very good.