There’s way too much hype over VPN Providers, but do not forget, you are routing all your traffic through their servers

As a general advice, if a VPN provider keeps logs of your activity, does not allow you to pay with crypto, and generally spends way too much on youtube ads is probably not an ideal choice.

Do not follow any advice/recommendation blindly, do your own research on which one offers the best service for your own needs.

TorrentFreak Q&A with VPN Providers

  • TheSaneWriter@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    I use Mullvad. They have you buy time upfront at a fixed price, have lots of payment options, and at one point were subpoenaed and proved to the Swedish government they don’t store any user data and therefore have nothing to turn over. They have a nice app too, I like them.

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      1 year ago

      They’re disabling port forwarding due to some bad actors… That’s why we can’t have nice things.

      For those who don’t know, port forwarding is mainly used for torrent seeders, aka the people who upload files to other people.

      • TheSaneWriter@vlemmy.net
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        1 year ago

        That’s a shame. I hope it causes more services to be cool with their IP addresses, but it’s unfortunate for toerrenting and running local forwarded servers.

      • TheSaneWriter@vlemmy.net
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        1 year ago

        Indeed, apparently there are some American-based VPN companies that piggyback off their servers, so I figured why not use the service directly. Their apps are also full of features, so I really think the €5 a month price is worth it.

    • Lx32@feddit.it
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      1 year ago

      The biggest problem of Mullvard, when I tried it, is that I cannot access to any streaming services. While atm with proton I have no problem at all

      • TheSaneWriter@vlemmy.net
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        1 year ago

        Apparently the reason for that is because malicious actors were port forwarding using Mullvad. They’re now disabling that feature, so it’s possible they will be whitelisted again in the future.