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”.

    • EmpiricalFlock@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Port forwarding, relatively cheap, runs a good Black Friday sale, and I think its log policy is decent from what I remember.

    • 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      8 months ago

      The airvpn client feels pretty outdated compared to something like mullvad. This might not be a big deal for everyone and there are ways around it but I always see airvpn recommended but noone ever mentions this

      • EmpiricalFlock@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Ever since I switched to Linux I don’t really use Eddie as much, but I agree it could be more intuitive. Even on Windows I typically only spent 30 seconds or less with the client, though, so it didn’t bother me.

      • Cold Brew@feddit.chEnglish
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        8 months ago

        The Wireguard client is good enough. I wouldn’t trust VPN providers’ custom apps to be as secure, privacy-focused or reliable as the official client ones.

    • Staple_Diet@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      8 months ago

      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.

    • einfach_orangensaft@feddit.deEnglish
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      8 months ago

      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.

      • girl@lemm.eeEnglish
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        8 months ago

        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.

    • agame@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      No Non-sense VPN. Plenty of servers and decent speed. FOSS clients for all the major platforms including linux and android.

      • girl@lemm.eeEnglish
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        8 months ago

        For a noob, can anyone explain why this one is getting downvoted? Is it bad?

        • Staple_Diet@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          8 months ago

          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.

        • wolfshadowheart@kbin.social
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          8 months ago

          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@lemm.eeEnglish
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            8 months ago

            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.

      • guyrocket@kbin.social
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        8 months ago

        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.