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”.

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.

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.

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.

aPirate,

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

kryllic,
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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.

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

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.

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)

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.

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?

netburnr,
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I don’t, I use usenet

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.

Valmond,

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