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What's a good VPN service that is reliable in terms of connection quality? (reddthat.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Anchorxiety@reddthat.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've been using iVPN for the past few months and the connection is total dogshit. I find myself turning it off every now and again to get things to load and that defeats the purpose of having a VPN.

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[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Use proton, Nord, mullvad if stability takes precedence over privacy

[–] bluespin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Proton and nord, sure. Did I miss news about mullvad? they've always had a solid track record on privacy as far as I know

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

The privacy of mullvad doesn't seem to actually have suffered or shown to be lacking in any way. The issue some people have with Mullvad is that one of the founders donated money to a right-wing political party.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

afaik some higher up at mullvad had ties to some 'controversial' political party. my memory is bad so please lookup yourself tho

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of the co-founders, Daniel, donated around a half mil USD to a far right political party in Sweden. They have ignored calls to remove Daniel.

[–] bluespin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for clarifying. That's disappointing to hear

[–] bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Out of curisoity, what would you recommend for privacy then?

[–] basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If youn want privacy, Tor is the only thing even close. But also the 333 compromised exits are glaring :(

[–] bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago

Oh, agreed. I would have to trust the VPN to actually not collect my data. That's why I'm curious what VPNs people trust these days.

Tor is great. I used to run a middle/guard relay in the past, thinking about doing so again. The problem is that reuglar people shouldn't run exit relay at home. And there aren't many companies that would allow exit relays on their servers/in their datacentre. I get why, but that leaves only a (relatively) small number of exit relays and it's so much easier for bad actors to control a significant number of them. :(

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

V2ray, Monero-bought vps (xray + amnesia)

[–] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 1 points 1 day ago

Xray isn't on fdroid, which is a red flag