Would be moving from Mullvad, would appreciate opinions on the current landscape of VPN’s from those who keep a better eye out. TIA.
I would use Mullvad
Alright, I guess I’ll stay where I am for now. My main concerns were streaming and privacy.
What’s wrong with Mullvad for streaming and privacy? They have fast server speeds, and their hardware can’t physically log user activity.
What’s going on with mullvad ? So many recommendations, isn’t it just another provider with shady background ?
No account creation, you can pay in bitcoin or mail them cash in an envelope if you want, and you can establish the VPN connection using standard free and open source software
Oh ok thanks
What shady background?
Some time ago I would have recommended Mullvad and Proton, but after Proton’s CEO publicly mentioned Trump favorably in some way I’d say just use Mullvad.
MullvadVPN.
Mullvad seems to be consistently good. I’ve been on it for +5 years. Before I used PIA but they got sold to a sketchy company.
AirVPN is great and has port forwarding.
I like airvpn. Ran 24/7 for over a year without issue.
How are the speeds?
I can only tell by how my torrents run, I’d say pretty good but not great. That could also be because I’m running 1,600 torrents
MullvadVPN, it doesn’t share info and you give it the least amount possible
I highly suggest Windscribe. They’re independent, tested safe, good prices, and good speeds. Been a paying customer for years and had few issues
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Proton VPN
Proton is sucking trumps chode these days
Nobody is mentioning PIA… Am I missing something that makes them a non-ideal option?
Bought by an Israeli firm:
https://hackread.com/private-internet-access-pia-vpn-sold-israel-privacy-concerns/
Several years ago, they were bought by Kape (formerly Crossrider), which is a company that started off making malware (browser toolbars that bundled unwanted software and other advertising software). I jumped from PIA to Proton once I found out. I’m paying more, but I can trust Proton more. They’re not a malware company, after all.
Hey, each and every one of those toolbars was necessary and useful!
According to all my non-techy friends back in the day, you’re right. They weren’t able to browse the web without their browsers looking like this:
I use Nord. No one here has mentioned Nord. Is it shit?
They have a pretty bad rep in terms of privacy from what I have seen
Dang, I wasn’t aware of that. Well, I’ll ditch them once my subscription expires for sure.
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if they put so much money into influencers, youtubers etc I am already turned off. shouldn’t they lower prices, pay better wages or expand infrastructure instead of giving money to pewdiepie?
I really love IVPN but I feel it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
I also cache the hell out of DNS myself (along with crazy strict blocking) which makes it much snappier than just going the default way.
You can squeeze out more performance out of their IPv6 (which is strange since the endpoints themselves don’t support IPv6), IPv4 seems a bit slower.
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