Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

AirVpn is awesome

It's Mullvad. This whole thing, in my eyes, overreaction to one asshole being an asshole, and not anywhere near as bad as so many other assholes.

That's my opinion, you're 100% valid in voting with your wallet and I respect everyone that draws the line here.

For me, though, Mullvad is the only one worth their salt if you actually want the best of the best for privacy, and there's no ethical consumption under capitalism so this feels like an exercise in futility.

Yep, I've been using AirVPN for about 6 months now. No complaints, works great! (Yes they support port forwarding.)

And works with gluetun! https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/providers/airvpn.md

I'll definitely be renewing when my year is up.

I had SurfShark years ago but really do not recommend them. Constant problems with all traffic just stopping and then I had to call someone up to cancel my subscription as there was no option online.

Switched to AirVPN which I don't see talked about much but it's great. The Android app is looking a little dated (the icon in the app drawer is in a tiny circle because they have added support for adaptive icons still) but functionally I can't complain.

I use OVPN. They own their own hardware and are basically the same as Mullvad in how you manage the account. Their Linux GUI clients are broken in Wayland but you can use the terminal or save your to the network manager.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/

ivpn ia the one i would recommend

I am also looking for alternatives to Mullvad, and my current leading contender is AirVPN

Commenting so I remember to check this thread later. My Mullvad expires in 5 days.

Can always count on Lemmy to raise awareness on where to not spend money!

I am not a mullvad user, but I recently found https://njal.la/. Curious if anyone has used it before and their experience

Way back, I used to use cryptostorm.is They had an interesting way of separating your payment of the service from the actual use of the service. Where you buy tokens, available from third party vendors even, and then you can use those tokens to authenticate to the vpn service.

Not sure how unique that feature is compared to other providers, I haven’t felt the need to run one in a good while. Also don’t know if they’re still legit or not.

If someone else has some insight on them I’d be interested it hearing!

ivpn and airvpn are my short list, but ivpn is not looking great for the southern hemisphere due to a lack of servers down here.. Northern hemisphere they would be my top choice. I have contacted them a couple of times, and they have responded the same day, were helpful, and appear genuine.

Is routing everything through Tor a good option?