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”.

EmpiricalFlock,
@EmpiricalFlock@beehaw.org avatar

AirVPN

EmpiricalFlock,
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Port forwarding, relatively cheap, runs a good Black Friday sale, and I think its log policy is decent from what I remember.

000999,

The airvpn client feels pretty outdated compared to something like mullvad. This might not be a big deal for everyone and there are ways around it but I always see airvpn recommended but noone ever mentions this

coldbrew,

The Wireguard client is good enough. I wouldn’t trust VPN providers’ custom apps to be as secure, privacy-focused or reliable as the official client ones.

EmpiricalFlock,
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Ever since I switched to Linux I don’t really use Eddie as much, but I agree it could be more intuitive. Even on Windows I typically only spent 30 seconds or less with the client, though, so it didn’t bother me.

018118055,

I use the native wireguard client on Linux

sillyhatsonly,

I also just switched from Mullvad to OpenVPN and I’m very happy with it. I grabbed the 3-year Halloween promo.

citruslumps,

If you are a pirate VPN is an essential tool

Lol naw. Private trackers only + small fiber isp that doesn’t give af.

VPNs cost money. I’m a pirate.

TCB13,
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You can always add this blocklist for extra protection: www.iblocklist.com/list?list=ydxerpxkpcfqjaybcssw

dangblingus,

Hey OP, maybe switch to your alt if you’re gonna be weird and fake online.

Staple_Diet,

Read their post mate, they said they would be replying with common VPNs and wanted people to up/down vote and comment on each one.

agame,

Windscribe

agame,

No Non-sense VPN. Plenty of servers and decent speed. FOSS clients for all the major platforms including linux and android.

girl,

For a noob, can anyone explain why this one is getting downvoted? Is it bad?

wolfshadowheart,
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It has 2 votes and the second comment just hasn't been voted on. But I also use Windscribe - the only thing to know about it is that there's been a probe. I personally feel that they handled it well and were transparent about it. Every VPN is going to have this happen to them at some point so IMO it's about how the information is delivered to the users that determines how trustworthy I find them.

girl,

Thanks for the explanation! I saw several more downvotes at the time I made my comment, I think it was 4 downvotes for the parent comment and 2 for the second comment. Votes between instances aren’t always consistent, I’ve noticed when I switch accounts that the same comment’s votes can vary quite a lot.

wolfshadowheart,
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Ah that would make sense lol

Staple_Diet,

Anything that isn’t Mullvad will get downvoted because many here have brought over the Reddit hivemind mentality. Many of the downvoted VPS ITT are completely safe and fine, and actually offer greater functionality than Mullvad, but you can’t deny Mullvad are the top when it comes to privacy - not even using a username/email plus allowing btc payment.

dangblingus,

Why are you replying a bunch to your own post with the name of different VPNs?

girl, (edited )

Did you read their post? They explained that they are posting lead comments with the names of different VPNs, and they want us to vote and comment on the ones we use with our reasoning.

agame,

Mullavad

Staple_Diet,

I used Mullvad, found them great for everything and would be my only VPN if they were big enough to facilitate streaming via other countries. Due to smaller number of servers it isn’t possible to use a lot of streaming services with them…I found this out when o/s and needing to VPN into my home country to access my geo-locked streaming service.

ChrisLicht,

PIA, just because I’m lazy and it’s been fine for like a decade. If there is something better, happy to hear about it.

nicetriangle,
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Yeah it’s cheap as shit too

korewa,

I’m on pia too I have a seed box anyway so it’s just for https queries. The seed box transfers locally via ssh

Thorny_Insight,

PIA was sold to Kape Technologies a few years back and they have somewhat questionable history and that made me switch to Mullvad. Not because I thought it’s better VPN per-se, but because I wanted away from PIA and Mullvad seemed popular.

The issue is who he sold it to – the notorious creator of some pernicious data-huffing ad-ware, Crossrider. The UK-based company was cofounded by an ex-Israeli surveillance agent and a billionaire previously convicted of insider trading who was later named in the Panama Papers. It produced software which previously allowed third-party developers to hijack users’ browsers via malware injection, redirect traffic to advertisers and slurp up private data.

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akilou,

Proton because I have their Unlimited plan.

Bread3290,

Expressvpn. Everything is stored on RAM

aldalire,

hide.me for UPnP port forwarding support (TLDR you can have access to more peers)

agame,

IVPN

Nollij,

This is what I’m currently using. It’s been great, but they just ended port forwarding. I will not be renewing.

unmagical,

Fully anonymous account, purchased with crypto, has a warrant canary, open source clients, regular server audits to verify no logs, relatively cheap, fast, works on all my devices, VPN bypass for things like steam, killswitch, and a choice of VPN protocols.

It also has multihop, but that’s just a gimmick.

agame,

Proton VPN

LostPenguin,
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Same. Since I am a paying Protonmail user I've switched to the Proton VPN. It has been fine.

guyrocket,
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I see that Proton allows payment via PayPal. Is it possible to pay via PayPal anonymously? I don't use PP much at all so IDK.

ChrisLicht,

I’d be shocked if it were, as I think they zealously honor KYC/AML/OFAC.

weedwhacking,

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    wolfshadowheart,
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    Basically what @Metal_Zealot and you have to worry about are if you've downloaded enough to make a profitable case going after you in a civil suit.

    As for using the VPN, any worthwhile VPN has split tunneling with inclusion and exclusion lists. I use Windscribe personally

    weedwhacking,

    Thanks for the info and suggestion :) I will check out windscribe!

    netburnr,
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    I don’t, I use usenet

    Valmond,

    ProtonVpn

    Imprint9816,

    AirVPN - privacy respecting (although their attitude towards audits is a bit off putting). They also had the best port forwarding offer at the time Mullvad announced it was ending its support.

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