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”.

SpaceNoodle,

You should add an option for Mullvad.

Suoko,
@Suoko@feddit.it avatar

Is it just me that using a VPN on my android, everything becomes much faster ? Apps load faster, the internet is faster, etc. Is it because it cuts out some s****y connection ?

sadreality,

likely DNS filter that your VPN forces

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,
@nicetriangle@kbin.social avatar

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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Daaric,

PIA

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.

supervent,

I know you are asking for a VPN, but you could give a try i2p for bittorrent it is free and secure. And if you want just DDL, you have Tor.

netchami,

Come on, don’t waste Tor resources for downloading pirated content. That’s what VPNs are for. Journalists and activists in countries like Russia, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc. rely on Tor in order to do their work, just use a VPN for downloading, it’s also much faster.

supervent,

Tor is for privacy and to circumvent censorship. What OP is asking is privacy…You could help them running a relay or bridge, it is easy, I have a few running.

netchami,

I run 2 nodes at my house, several nodes (including exit nodes) on different VPS providers and I use the Snowflake addon in all of my browsers. But Tor is meant for people who require anonymity and the ability to circumvent censorship, not for those who don’t want to pay for a VPN.

supervent,

I was running in the past years 2 guard/middle relays, now I prefer only bridges and snowflake, to help users in a countries with censorship, like Iran or turkmenistan.

netchami,

That’s great! All parts of the network are important.

Valmond,

ProtonVpn

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.

netburnr,
@netburnr@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t, I use usenet

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.

aldalire,

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

Bread3290,

Expressvpn. Everything is stored on RAM

akilou,

Proton because I have their Unlimited plan.

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.

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