I trust my ISP more than a random VPN provider. I use HTTPS for everything anyways.
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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Astrill, only VPN with a good track record in China where I happen to live.
Most others crap out after a few weeks or months, and never bother to fix their protocols.
Huh, interesting that VPNs work in China. I thought the GFW aggressively throttled encrypted connections?
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Windscribe. Prices are great, unlimited bandwidth, and 1Gbps servers for no additional cost. They have a free tier as well. They’re very privacy focused. Been a customer of theirs for probably like 5-6 years now.
Why do you trust some random VPN provider in a different country more than your local ISP?
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Got Express right before they sold. Going to swap very soon! Mainly looking at proton for the swap
Proton doesn't have a good privacy record a few reasons including this
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I don’t see nord on this list. Can someone tell me why the others listed are better?
I also use Nord. I think it's fine, but self-hosted and open would be better (since you for SURE know what data is passing through and what is happening with it). With Nord it's like a "trust me bro" black box.
That said, I trust Nord enough for my needs. I don't do anything too secretive on the VPN and frankly I think the 80/20 is in favor of just using Nord over self-hosting (I don't really have time for that).
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ProtonVPN, but I've been thinking of switching to Mullvad or maybe PIA(because of price).
I used to have Mullvad but it recently disabled portforwarding-support. Now I ditched it in favor of Proton since I already had a Proton subscription running. I am still looking out for a VPN that supports portforwarding though, in a way that a non-tech-savvy person like myself can run it on Linux. No idea where and how to do that now.
Can you tell me why someone would need port forwarding with a VPN? Genuinely don't know.
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Hide.me is what I use. Had the best score when comparing features I cared about at the time.
my own wireguard server. i use it to watch one of those iptv "all included" services as well as stream from torrents and hosters. for anonymity i usually use, proxychains, tor or a mix of both.
VyprVPN. I'm late to the party, but I've spoken to the founder a couple of occasions, he seemed like a guy that really just wants to provide no nonsense VPN. Its not the best or fastest service, and I don't need VPN for everything, but for whatever I need, it's cheap and it's privacy friendly.