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submitted 1 year ago by Buggo@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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My subrsiption with surfshark is ending soon and I was wondering if there was something better around the same price. There are a lot of ads about many VPNs but a lot of them don't look so "safe and private" as they want you to think so it's hard to really figure it out. I don't want to spend too much since I don't use them very often but I kinda like the "change catalog of netflix" thing and to be safe while doing some """""""shady"""""" stuff

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[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

MullvadVPN is great. It's a no-bullshit VPN.

[–] leraje@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Another vote for Mullvad. You can pay by cash, vouchers (in some countries) or Monero for total privacy.

[–] delnac@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I believe it does have an issue surrounding their disabling port forwarding, which becomes problematic if you try to torrent, or so I understood.

They are A+ on privacy and transparency, that being said.

[–] leraje@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

They have recently removed support for port forwarding. That won't stop a user being able to torrent but it will stop seeding and will affect discoverability and speed somewhat.

Has no negative impact on their privacy features

[–] sijt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, Mullvad is the one. No fishy pricing structure, transparency, and they don't force you to use their apps like other VPN providers. So if you want to route a docker container or network appliance through it you can just download the config files and away you go. So many VPN providers used to let you do this but then stopped so you have to use their apps (and we should be asking why they want you to use their apps, because the answer is usually control and data).