proton, supports split tunneling, based in europe and they have a strict no-logs policy
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So now proton is ok and Mullvad is bad? I thought proton was ostracized for the same reasons?
proton had one incident sponsoring a far-right influencer, which was probably caused by a rogue employee. they've also done some cringe praising of the republican party because they're apparently against big tech abuses (lol)
that's about it really. bad but not the worst thing in the world since they say that sponsorship was a mistake and it wont happen again. the political statements are cringe but it was just about free market blah blah so i personally don't care since there isn't really a better option
mullvad's ceo on the other hand directly donated 5 million sek to örebropartiet, a fascist party in sweden. that's very bad
Same here
AirVPN with privacy focus and port forwarding
Airvpn actually looks really good even though I've never heard of them. Cheap, has all the features I need and they have existed for a long time.
There are literally dozens of us!!!
In all seriousness tho, I like the fact that Eddie supports amnezia wireguard.
Heck yeah! I've been using them for about a year now. I'm happily going to pay for another year.
Mullvad but the founder is a fascist so ill change that after my time runs out
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Wondering why you are considering leaving ivpn?
They appear to be 1 of only 2 trustworthy vpns now that mullvad left the building
airvpn being the other
what about Mullvad?
Co-founder donated to a fringe party supporting remigration
oh ok, right.
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I switched from Mullvad to IVPN after the Mullvad troubles. IVPN seems good to so far, does everything I need and hasn't been proven untrustworthy/politically dodgy yet.
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AirVPN. I switched from proton a while ago because it was a pain to do port forwarding. AirVPN lets me have multiple ports forwarding with ease. And they take xmr as payment!
What was a part of it was a pain, exactly? I use port forwarding and have no issues.
There wasn't a clear/easy way to do it on a headless server. Maybe they've improved the service since
Don't know how you do it but I just downloaded the config file from Proton and deploy stacks of the app I want to use port forwarding on + gluetun (which uses the conf file I mentioned). I don't really see why a server being headless would complicate the process.
Proton, because its fast and reliable in my experience so i never felt the need to switch, plus i agree with their policies.
I just today started using the new Tor VPN app. I have been using InviZible from F-Droid in SOCKS proxy mode for almost 2 years now, but not all apps support directing their network traffic through a SOX proxy. And so, some apps I was not able to do over Tor. I think the day will come where we as free people have to abandon the clear net entirely and do everything over Tor and I2P. The clearnet is going to become nothing except for ID upload verification screens.
Mullvad for stuff that matters. Which is 24/7 on all devices.
Airvpn for piracy and only for piracy.
Ivpn, windscribe, proton or whoever else isn’t obviously an idf cutout and running a deal for scraping and bypassing geoblocks.
If I’m at home:
Device > WireGuard Tunnel > ProtonVPN Endpoint
If I’m disconnected from my home network:
Device > WireGuard Tunnel > Home Network > WireGuard Tunnel > ProtonVPN Endpoint
Essentially created my own multi-hop network, works like a charm.
Nice, was thinking about doing this as well. Do you switch manually between apps on your device? Or do you use a wireguard app with multiple profiles?
Ivpn: canary, audited, anonymous accounts purchasable with crypto or cash, no performance issues, no logs (allegedly), open source protocols and clients.
I really like their blatant honesty in "Do you really need a VPN?"
Fundamentally, the only use case of a VPN is if you trust them with your traffic more than your ISP. Since I've had multiple ISPs that serve up adds instead of 404s and will threaten you for using p2p protocols it's easy to trust a VPN more. As best I can tell Ivpn is just a couple of security peeps running a VPN service cause they can--could they be corrupted or a honey pot? Yeah, but the anonymous accounts help mitigate that risk, and the reality is that even an anonymous account can be tied back to your IP. So don't do anything illegal illegal on just a VPN and it'll prolly be fine.
And they're not advertised through everyone with a platform.
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I still use PIA, but only for a couple of things running in containers. I use wireguard as my private vpn for my own services
I use them as well, simply because they had a screaming deal for 3 years of service, it seems plenty fast and stable, and my threat model is pretty much just keeping my torrenting private.
Do you have any thoughts on the Kape buyout? https://usernotices.com/finance-and-business/advertising/who-is-the-new-owner-of-pia
Because of who Kape is, and their ties to Israeli military, I personally consider them a threat actor instead of a valid VPN choice for my needs.
https://blog.boycat.io/posts/expressvpn-israeli-ownership-1b-privacy-risk
My plan is to jump ship when my plan expires in a couple of months. I only have indexers going though it these days as 99% of my "data sourcing" is done via Usenet over SSL and the VPN isn't technically required in that case.
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