If you’re looking for a VPN, check out Mullvad.
It’s just €5 / $5.25 / £4.15 a month. They haven’t changed that price since launching in 2009. So they’ve also been around a while. Does everything you need a VPN to do. And they’re based in Sweden, which seems to have some good privacy rules. They also don’t keep logs.
No port forward though (I understand why but it is still annoying)
What would be the benefit of port forwarding?
Is this something you could do on your router on your side, making it so it doesn’t matter if they dont do it?
Torrenting, can reach more peers. Especially helpful for older, less popular torrents.
Do new torrents bypass this somehow, or is it just by sheer volume and popularity ?
The latter. Seedboxes are becoming more popular these days, which might be good for future torrent preservation. But if you have a niche or old school taste, you are gonna have a hard time without port forwarding.
Sadly doing it on the router would not be enough. Not a problem if you are browsing of course. But if you host, needs to listen on a specific port or whatever it gets annoying. And obviously piracy.
I like how the article boils down to, “Except for some isolated use cases, Tor is far superior to a VPN in both cost and safety,” and a lot of the comments boil down to “YEAH VPNS ARE GREAT GET A VPN.”
It is okay to read the article before writing a comment, guys. In some circles, it’s even encouraged, because you might learn something.
Except many services are very aggressive to Tor exit nodes, namely Google and Cloudflare. Everytime I just met with CAPTCHA after CAPTCHAs, and eventually I gave up on the site.
Yeah, I should cut ties with Google but cutting YouTube on NewPipe is hard. I’m on Proton and watching YouTube is already hard.
You may want to give Freetube a try, which may avoid that issue (especially if combined with libredirect).
Got the captcha endless wave yesterday using freetube on linux until I changed VPN nodes. I don’t think it’s proxying (not checked though)
The latest captchas and cloudflare-turnstile approve you because the google-cloud flare networks have already determined who you are as an individual and just wave you through.
Tor gets the checks because they don’t know who you are and are seeing you for the first time. Getting a captcha means your privacy strategy is working.
It is working so well that I get an infinite loop of it on the same page.
Yeah the whole logic of “If I protect my privacy effectively, I won’t be able to use Google services anymore! O woe” is a little bit strange to me.
I don’t know if your full of shit or this is legit. I really think this is legit.
It’s a massive oversimplification. But with captcha systems everywhere, they’re able to see you visit a newspaper, visit the journal site, try to download a journal pdf, and captcha is able to easily conclude that you’re a human and have automatic approval.
Maybe if you’re going straight to a site for the first time today it would measure your single mouse click. And then from there tracking you across the Internet, assuming you’re online for maybe 6 hours like 99% of connected humans.
Tor blocks all the fingerprinting, and anonymizes the ip address. Captcha is only able to see a computer arrive at the website requesting access. Captcha’s only tool is to give challenges which the bots are able to beat. So they make you run the challenge multiple times, seeing how long it takes your or randomizing how many times you’re willing to do them.
Source: some tech YouTuber did a mini documentary about it. You could watch it yourself I assume.
I’ve had the same experience with vpn’s requiring a captcha for every second website I visit.
Don’t just use Tor, use VPN on top of it.
If you use tor frequently, you’d eventually get a bad “roll of dice” on the nodes and get 3 government run nodes. Its not a matter of “if” but “when”, roll the dice enough times, and the holes in the “swiss cheese” eventually line up.
If you are using Tor, also use a VPN along with it. It might make the traffic a little slower, but its worth it in case you get 3 NSA nodes.
Consider posting the text of the article in the comment section if you feel so strongly about this.
Tailscale is the best VPN that exists rn.
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I love the ultra paranoid path Proton offers. It reminds me.of GoldenEye.
You -> VPN Server 1 -> VPN Server 2 -> TOR -> endpoint.
“Good luck, I’m behind 7 proxies!”
vyper has plans fo $3/mo
Tor has plans for free/mo.
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