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”.

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,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

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

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.

walden,

AirVPN because of port forwarding.

killeronthecorner,
@killeronthecorner@lemmy.world avatar

What do you use it for?

walden,

The port forwarding? It makes torrenting work better.

killeronthecorner,
@killeronthecorner@lemmy.world avatar

Interesting, I haven’t experienced anything like this with regards to torrent failures. I don’t entirely follow what failure means in this context though. I have torrents that have never completed due to lack of seeds and peers. I don’t think I’ve had a torrent fail in thousands over the last few years (data based on my current NAS box, but was true prior to that too)

walden,

The link above explains it better than I can, but without port forwarding it’ll still work, but it works better with an open port.

killeronthecorner,
@killeronthecorner@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah but the reason to do it is stated as:

If you are OK with your downloads failing in 10% of cases then continue as usual.

Unless I’m missing something, there’s no point in me pursuing it as I don’t have the problem described, because my Torrents aren’t failing.

howrar,

I have torrents that have never completed due to lack of seeds and peers.

That’s what failing means here. You know how you sometimes see a torrent site list a non-zero number of seeders but when you try to download it, you don’t connect to any of them and it shows 0 seeders in your client? That’s what happens when neither you nor the seeders have port forwarding set up.

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.

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.

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.

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

storm,

Torguard.net

Ibaudia,
@Ibaudia@lemmy.world avatar

Torguard is the best! $30 per year with my current plan and it’s reliable enough to play games.

storm,

Torguard has port forwarding which is essential if you belong to private trackers. Wireguard connection is very fast and stable. Plenty of 50% off coupons that are easy to find via Google. This summer, they had a 70% off coupon. I opened a ticket and they quickly applied the coupon to my existing account.

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.

netchami,

I use IVPN and I’m very happy with them. They allow you to make an account without giving out your Email address, you just get a random-generated Account ID (Mullvad does the same btw). They also allow you to pay with Monero, an anonymous crypto currency. I used Mullvad before, Proton VPN and AirVPN are great options as well.

StickBugged,

IVPN Looks really good, does it have port forwarding so you can torrent with it?

netchami,

They recently removed it, I recommend AirVPN if you need port forwarding.

Jezebelley,

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    Compactor9679,

    Hahahahah

    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.

    TonyStarkRevant,

    I don’t use VPN

    chemicalwonka,
    @chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    Mulllvad VPN on my Hardened Void Linux and GrapheneOS mainly to hide my real IP address plus I use NextDNS paid version too.

    SirStumps,
    @SirStumps@lemmy.world avatar

    I use Nord VPN. Might switch to Proton when my sub is done.

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