What VPN do you use and why?

If you are a pirate VPN is an essential tool. I am trying to ascertain the popularity of various VPNs in piracy community. In this excerise, I will list several Popular VPNs in the comment if you use one of them just upvote that comment and reply the reason. If you don’t find your VPN listed add a comment with just their name. Reply the reason to it. This make it easier to understand the real life user cases.

P.S: I am only looking for paid VPNs please don’t mention “free vpn”.

TonyStarkRevant,

I don’t use VPN

Zedstrian,

Proton VPN since it’s cheaper than ExpressVPN but apparently faster than other paid VPN options, while also having port forwarding to improve torrent connectivity.

ColeSloth,

I’ve been using cyberghost and it seems easy and works well. Am I screwing up?

netchami,

Am I screwing up?

Yes.

ColeSloth,

My two years I bought renews in like 5 days. Guess I’ll cancel and switch.

netchami,

Check this out: www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/. It will help you make a good decision. Also, my personal recommendation: AirVPN.

Jezebelley,

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    Compactor9679,

    Hahahahah

    aPirate,

    Currently proton its decent though I’m thinking of moving to mullvad even though they’ve removed portforwarding.

    kryllic,
    @kryllic@programming.dev avatar

    I did this and found it worked way better in terms of stability. Bonus is that Mullvad has a proper Linux client whereas Proton’s is just a cobbled-together mess that’s not worth using and is no where close to feature parity with the Windows client

    rfy,

    And in the case that your Linux distro doesn’t have a client in their repos, you can very easily use Mullvad with wireguard in the terminal.

    java,

    you can very easily use Mullvad with wireguard in the terminal

    To be fair, same with Proton. OpenVPN and WireGuard configurations are available.

    CalicoJack,

    I’ve used both and much prefer Proton for sailing the seas. Connecting through France (highest speed + p2p) with port forwarding is the best torrent speed I’ve had on a VPN. The only slight annoyance is it switching the forwarded port every time it reconnects, but I run it 24/7 anyway.

    Just skip the “official” client and run it through gluetun. It’s a much better experience.

    netchami,

    Mullvad is great. Also check out IVPN, they are kinda similar to Mullvad (they also allow for anonymous registration without an Email address and they accept anonymous Monero payments). Maybe take a look at AirVPN if you need port forwarding.

    bloopernova,
    @bloopernova@programming.dev avatar

    Mullvad because they don’t need your name, and you can pay by cash anonymously.

    Siddhartha-Aurelius,

    They also regularly have independent security audits
    and their servers run everything on RAM meaning the second it loses power all data is lost.

    datavoid,

    Do they still not have port forwarding?

    PeachMan,
    @PeachMan@lemmy.world avatar

    Nope. I’d argue that Mullvad is not for most pirates, unless you’re actually worried about being jailed for your piracy (depends on what country you’re in). If you just want to get the letters from your ISP to stop, there are much cheaper VPNs that can do that.

    Mullvad is for actual privacy, which many VPNs don’t really give you. If you gave them an email address and credit card, then it ain’t private, kids!

    netchami,

    Check out AirVPN if you want port forwarding.

    agame,

    Cyberghost

    ColeSloth,

    Shoot. Does this mean I need to switch?

    JCPhoenix,
    @JCPhoenix@beehaw.org avatar

    Windscribe. Mainly because I scored a cheap lifetime deal many years ago. It works well enough. Got two ISP copyright strikes before using Windscribe. Have yet to get another since using Windscribe (knock on wood). But I also don’t pirate as much as I used to.

    giotheflow,

    This is me. Stacksocial had that lifetime deal for approx $35. I said why not?

    thorbot,

    I love seeing these posts because I’ve been pirating for almost 20 years and never once have I paid for or used a VPN. I’ve never received a letter from my ISP about it. If you use a trustworthy private tracker you don’t fucking need it. Downvote me all you want but I’m not wrong.

    crimsdings,

    Same but in Austria those letters aren’t a thing.

    Nouveau_Burnswick,

    Do you have any invites? I’m a good seeder.

    Daefsdeda,

    Okay so appereantly you have exclusive sources trackers. I would also love to join one and seed but I never do, cause I thought the most illegal thing was the sharing/seeding part. What id you guys thoughts on that?

    thorbot,

    I think you meant to reply to my post. Yes it’s the exclusive trackers that keep you safe from needing a VPN, seeding is always part of torrenting. You can earn your way into those bigger private trackers by joining an invite forum and contributing enough, once you show good ratios form other sites you’ll get invites to the big ones like TorrentLeech

    Daefsdeda,

    Well I honestly replied to both of you guys cause I found it interesting how he asked for a invite for the private torrent club.

    Thanks for explaining it! Do you perhaps know a forum where I can start, or at least one you can recommend? I want to get a paid VPN once I am not a student anymore.

    thorbot,

    I used a site called torrent-invites back in the day, now this was like 15 or 20 years ago so sadly I don’t know of a modern one, but I am sure you can find one if you look around. I wouldn’t worry about a VPN unless you are using ThePirateBay or some crap like that

    Nouveau_Burnswick,

    Someone has to seed. I am willing to risk it for the biscuit.

    Daefsdeda,

    A true hero indeed.

    thorbot,

    I do have invites but 2/3 people I’ve invited were banned for HnR so generally I don’t invite people unless I know them. If I invite another user who doesn’t seed I’ll lose my invites completely so I’m understandably wary about handing them out

    Nouveau_Burnswick,

    Makes sense.

    p5f20w18k,
    @p5f20w18k@lemmy.world avatar

    AirVPN, limited on details for signing up, can pay in crypto and easy port forwarding.

    Good config generator as well

    Marzanna,

    I’ve been using AzireVPN for several years. Mostly because they have ipv6 and externally accessible IPv4. They also accept cryptocurrency and this is crucial.

    Zaphod,

    Currently testing Windscribe because they had good offer for a yearly subscription and some interesting features like ad block (mostly useful for mobile). Their privacy level is sufficient for what I’m doing currently, but if I ever need I’ll just Mullvad.

    beastlykings,

    ITT a ton of people not reading the OP 🤦‍♂️

    nicetriangle,
    @nicetriangle@kbin.social avatar

    OP’s request was needlessly complicated especially once the thread got big.

    LanyrdSkynrd,

    I use PIA because it was the cheapest on their 3.3 year plan, and it has a good node geographically close to me with port forwarding. I only use it for torrenting, so I don’t care if it’s a CIA Honeypot or whatever.

    agame,

    Expressvpn

    KpntAutismus,

    they are very committed to not save any of your data, to the point that their servers run entirely in RAM and get cleared daily. but i am considering switching to mullvad when my subscription runs out.

    aPirate,

    It was bought up by Kape recently its not recommended anymore. It would be good to switch to mullvad they are quite trusted so far. Video from mental outlaw. piped.video/watch?v=hfjCB_oPIuo

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