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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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[–] milbyte11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

proton has good connection that barely cuts out even on the free tier. moreso a problem when websites block you or get cloudflare challenge often, but that's a problem with all commercial VPNs. i just switch the node then, usually works.

port forwarding on the commercial plan is neat too for me, because i am behind CGNAT.

We are on a privacy forum so i feel the need to say that VPNs are only good for privacy if your ISP is spying on you (or they're forced to by law enforcement), not much else. IP is a very fragile fingerprinting metric, most people get dynamic IPs as the "default" option. You're basically trusting a VPN company instead, they have access to the same info as your ISP would without one; Proton has been audited multiple times at least, so there's more backing to that no log policy than [[insert ISP here]]