VPN's recommendations?
from Brutticus@lemm.ee to privacy@lemmy.ml on 29 Apr 15:38
https://lemm.ee/post/62682895

Hello, all

I’m sorry if there is an FAQ somewhere. My VPN is about enter it’s yearly billing cycle and I thought I would come over here and see if anyone had a better suggestion. I’ve been using IPvanish for the last 10 years and have been pretty satisfied. I picked it by going into the darkweb and seeing what the criminals recommended to each other.

If anyone has other suggestions or tales before I renew, I would love to check it out.

#privacy

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ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Apr 15:45 next collapse

If you can live without port forwarding, mullvad is another great option.

SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca on 29 Apr 15:52 collapse

It’s what I use and it works well for me. It seemed like the best option when I was researching this recently. Plus the icon is cute.

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 29 Apr 18:52 collapse

It's all around goat unless you torrent maniac... You can still torrent without port forwarding, just not at high speeds

sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today on 29 Apr 15:55 next collapse

IVPN, Mullvad, or Proton. Criminals aren’t necessarily smart, I remember a ghost phone that criminals thought were secure and it was a honeypot. Shoulda used Graphene for free.

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 29 Apr 18:51 collapse

Two these are the goats. Figure out your use case and pick one.

kobra@lemm.ee on 29 Apr 16:19 next collapse

FWIW I am not enjoying the Proton app experience. I can’t favorite servers so I have to manually search and connect to the location I want each time.

WellTheresYourCobbler@hexbear.net on 29 Apr 16:32 next collapse

Mullvad, and if you need port forwarding like @ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com said protonvpn is decent too. Proton executives have had some controversial statements supporting trump though making me wary of them

lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Apr 17:10 next collapse

I enjoyed mozilla vpn until a few months ago - seemed like every site in the world had their ips blocked; ended up rolling my own on a cheap vps.

lopar49@lemm.ee on 29 Apr 17:13 collapse

How does the price of a vps compare to any other vpn. Surely this isnt as private?

lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Apr 17:22 collapse

I purchased a lowend vps for $15 USD a year. Correct, it is not as private - due to the singular ip; however, for my needs it works quite well.

afk_strats@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 18:36 collapse

Would you be willing to share which one can be had for that cheap?

hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org on 29 Apr 17:51 next collapse

airvpn seemed nice but i havent tried it.

Kumikommunism@hexbear.net on 29 Apr 19:59 collapse

It’s very good. I download a lot of obscure torrents so I wanted port forwarding, and it’s very simple to set up. The user experience is great. The only part they could work on is the desktop client, but I needed split tunneling so I use a third party one anyways. But I’ve never had any noticeable slowdown and it’s very stable.

Kobo@sh.itjust.works on 29 Apr 17:54 next collapse

mullvad but you cant seed while torrenting with it due to no port forwarding

Kovpak@lemmygrad.ml on 29 Apr 20:59 collapse

You can seed, it’s just slow. It’ll only connect to other users that have closed ports. With ports open, it’ll connect to both, but as said not possible with Mullvad with port forwarding disabled. That’s at least as far as I know

amanverasia@lemm.ee on 29 Apr 17:57 next collapse

Windscribe or Mullvad. I personally use Windscribe and it has some really good features and so far they have a really good reputation in privacy circles.

asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev on 29 Apr 18:05 next collapse

Mullvad.

n3m37h@sh.itjust.works on 29 Apr 19:02 next collapse

Ive never had an issue with PIA, CHEAP as hell on a 3 year plan with an affiliate link and they run their servers on RAM Disk so no logging

Xanza@lemm.ee on 29 Apr 19:22 collapse

nym.com is great.