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”.

agame,

Nord VPN

einfach_orangensaft,

i will never trust a company that had so much investor money on hand to run such a massivr ad campain like Nord did.

It was missleading, agressive and anoying.

The pressure behind that ad campaim kind made me feel like the whole thing was just the biggest honeypot we have ever seen.

Melina,
@Melina@hexbear.net avatar

Nord is the reason I’m under investigation. Wouldn’t recommend

FeelzGoodMan420, (edited )

Lol wtf is this comment? You’re under investigation because of NordVPN? Press X to doubt.

FMT99,

Apparently people don’t like Nord but a few years ago several privacy sites advocated for them. I wonder what changed.

sadreality,

their handling of a data breach if i remember correctly

notdeadyet,
@notdeadyet@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

They had a server breach and didn’t tell anyone until a few years after the fact.

netchami,

NordVPN pays people to advocate for them.

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

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,

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.

agame,

Proton VPN

LostPenguin,
@LostPenguin@kbin.social avatar

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

guyrocket,
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

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.

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,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

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,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

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.

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