Mullvad, iVPN
Such a gorgeous answer 🤌🤌🤌
I tried IVPN recently but had a ton of trouble getting MLB.tv streams to work. Switched back to ExpressVPN for now.
IVPN and Mullvad are probably the best VPNs if you simply want to transfer full view of all your internet activity from your ISP to one of these 2 companies. If you want to keep your internet movements private from everyone, use Tor browser. Its slower and doesn’t do udp, but it is much closer to real privacy than the commercial VPNs. Of course, if you are a high priority target of a large nation state, then Tor might not be enough for you, but for most people it works well for those things you want private. If you just want to watch movies, torrent and stuff like that, regular VPNs are the way to go.
Nope, use i2p and never go to clearnet
And have 5 sites you can go to most of which are in Russian.
Also wasn’t they’re something about that group supporting Putin or something like that?
Ur right i wish more people used i2p
This.
Proton. It replaced PIA for me when it was introduced. Since I was already paying for Proton mail, there was no reason to keep paying for a separate VPN as well.
Reasonable decision. Proton is good for privacy 🙂
Really? Protonmail doesn’t have a clean track record. They backtracked their TOS, their onion site forwards to the clearnet, and they outed a French climate activist.
Same story, made the switch and now I use the ecosystem except the password manager. It’s a bunch of solid products. Tad Expensive (compared to free like Gmail) but I’m happy.
I’ve been trying out the password manager these past couple weeks to see how it compares to Bitwarden. Overall I’ve been impressed. Auto fill actually seems to be superior on Proton as it works on some sites that Bitwarden never would for me. My only real complaint at the moment is that the iOS app will log out of my account at random and it’s a hassle to log back in since I don’t always have my Proton pw on hand.
I seriously considered switching, but they don’t offer enough storage to make it a better value for me.
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The answers are always going to be Mullvad, IVPN or Proton VPN. Windscribe is also a possibility.
+1 for windscribe
Such a based answer 😍😘
Mullvad VPN paid with Monero and NextDNS paid version.
Why NextDNS if you already query DNS through Mullvad?
Because I prefer the granular control that I have over my queries when I’m using NextDNS something that I don’t have with Mullvad DNS.
I use Mozilla VPN, which is just Mullvad but more expensive. I want to support Mozilla though and enjoy the integration with my multi account containers so i stick with it
If you were in with Mozilla VPN while it was in beta (for $4.99/month), you can keep that price for life as long as you have an active sub. I got lucky with that one.
Don’t use express VPN. They make it very annoying to cancel. I thought I canceled once and it didn’t work.
It takes three confirmations inside a hidden menu.
Mullvad. Cheap, simple, good, and everyone here seems to be infatuated with it.
One of the best options. On par with IVPN and Proton. 😘
I tried Proton (the free version), but it didn’t seem as reliable and it just had too much going on. Mullvad is as simple as choosing a location and connecting.
Solid. Very solid option 🙂
Proton
Good option for Privacy 🙂
Same, fast cheap and at least one of the absolute best when it comes to privacy.
Mullvad and Cryptostorm
Cryptostorm is a honeypot that was discovered years ago. I’m surprised anyone even talks about it still
Sources for it being a honeypot?
It was a big controversy years ago. You can take or leave the info. I don’t have the time to look it up.
Douglas Spink was arrested. He was then removed from the team, no longer having access to anything. Df has been the main guy for the past couple years - but that’s cryptostorm becoming a honeypot, in your opinion?
Doesn’t hurt to be overly paranoid, but this is to the extreme.
I have nothing invested in proving it one way or another. It is something I saw a few years ago, and thought I’d mention it now to warn others. If you think it went from honeypot to non-honeypot, then by all means use it. At the end of the day, you cannot fully trust any traditional VPN because they can do what ever they want and we’d be none the wiser, despite all the big claims. VPN’s are for watching geoblocked movies and stuff like that. That’s about it. If you want privacy, you’ll have to look into other things.
If you think it went from honeypot to non-honeypot
I don’t think it was ever a honeypot, they contributed a lot to the early VPN communities, following both perfect-privacy and blackvpn.
VPN’s are for watching geoblocked movies and stuff like that. That’s about it.
I do not believe so, but to each their own.
Do you work for Cryptostorm?
May I ask why do you think Cryptostorm is a honeypot?
It was a big scandal some years ago and I don’t have the time to look it up for you. You can take it as you like.
I’ve been using Proton for half a year, and I’m considering buying the Unlimited plan
Proton
Very good option!
Private Internet Access
https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-to-be-acquired-by-kape/
Some have pointed at Kape’s history. The company had previously operated under the name Crossrider and was active in the advertising space. Among other things, it installed toolbars with ‘potentially unwanted software.’ While the company has since switched to a focus on cybersecurity, this past has made some people suspicious.
I use PIA in spite of this because their excellent privacy policy has not changed since this purchase. If their policy changes I will drop them like a bad habit.
I also use PIA, for many years now. The performance for price has always been fantastic, along with their policies. However, I’m becoming worried about the company now, noticing signs of bad health. Software development and updates have stopped (I’ve now switched to OpenVPN). Help and documentation has stopped (and blog/news). Customer service seems extremely understaffed as well.
Thanks for sharing this. I might cancel my subscription if things don’t improve then.
Why? Prices? Convenience? Trust?
The price is good, I’ve used them for many years and I’ve never had a problem.
same same
Reasonable 🙂
Personally for me all three. They offer OVPN profiles to connect even without using their software and their privacy policy includes a “no logs” clause
It’s a solid point, but VPN companies have violated “no logs” policies in the past.
That’s concerning, but so far so good with PIA
Self hosted WireGuard
From a technical standpoint, how does that work? Are you being an exit-point and get to use others exit points or what am I missing here?
The traffic is encrypted between my computer and a VPS located abroad that I rent, which acts as a sort of proxy. My ISP only sees traffic between me and the VPS.
How does it effect your internet speed, and does inhibit number of connections at all?
Also self hosted Wireguard on a foreign VPS
I literally don’t even notice between the VPN being enabled or disabled
All VPN software might affect bandwidth due to the increased progressing needed for encryption, but quantifying it is hard because several factors come into play : mainly the hardware and bandwidth on either side of the tunnel. Giving it a go is easy and you can check which VPS specs give you the speed you require. Regarding the number of connections, I’m not sure of the answer. For all intents and purposes I don’t run into a lot of problems on a daily basis and bandwidth is acceptable on a cheap 4€/mo VPS with 2 CPUs. Bonus tip for privacy, you can use port 443 for wireguard which makes it less obvious you’re using a VPN.
What does that run you? Is it more cost effective than a few dollars a month for a commercial service?
At the moment I pay 4 euros per month, so slightly more expensive than the cheaper commercial options out there but I control the software completely.
Ah ok, I did that a while at work, tunneling with putty to my server.
I do feel a “real” VPN is offering better protection though.
And what do you use to hide your traffic from your VPS provider? Or are there privacy focused providers out there?
That is not something I do at the moment but I would be happy to hear how other people do it.
AirVPN
What reasons drove you to land there?
Personally, I switched from Mullvad after they dropped support for port forwarding. I’ve found AirVPN is easier to use on that front as well.
Port forwarding, got a good deal, reviewed well. It exports Wireguard and OpenVPN files easily, so you are not tied to their Eddie client. I’m happy with it so far.
Good reasons 👍🙂
Private internet access. It’s super cheap too
I switched to Proton from PIA when I learned of PIAs sketchy new owner Kape Technologies
Fair. But afaik their privacy policy hasnt changed. i will probably drop em asap if I catch wind of something concretely nefarious tho.
I might be wrong, but couldn’t their privacy policy stay the same but their internal policies of complying with government requests change with new ownership?
What’s the consistency, speed, security, scale, and availability though.
It’s been great for me. Servers all over the world, connection remains rock solid for me. I also like that they support port forwarding, which can be a godsend for some torrents.
Do you have any details tho or is it just that “it’s been good for you”
Namely security, consistency and speed
