I recently answered this in another thread[0]: I'm using Wireguard in combination with Pi-Hole on a cheap VPS as a VPN on my iPhone, it's blazingly fast and super stable. Will be trying this on my Mac as well now.
Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
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#152I’m curious to know about use cases. I recently started thinking about anonymizing my web activity because a few minutes after I searched for a particular make/model vehicle, my wife saw an ad for it on Facebook. It seems like this is IP-based tracking, since I was searching in Firefox Focus (and she doesn’t get car ads in general).
Would a VPN help with this? I’ve tried using Tor (through Brave), but I run into tons of captchas and many sites won’t load at all.
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#153This might sound dumb. But, I use ProtonVPN because Mozilla partnered with them and I place trust in Mozilla’s ability to make a more informed choice than I can make — largely due to their access to information and on hand knowledge and expertise. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/10/22/testing-n...
As much as I would like to support Mozilla, connecting to protonvpn.com with Firefox 65.0.1 throws me an insecure site error:
Your connection is not secure
The owner of protonvpn.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.
Doesn't inspire confidence.
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
#154Box in a basement. A friend in the states provided one for me and I'm happy. It does what it needs to do (AKA encrypts traffic on public networks and lets me get to the US only stuff). It's also undetectable compared to commercial VPNs, because the number of people using it is very small and services think it's just a household.
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#155Rented a dirt cheap small VPS (256MB RAM, less than $10/year) and setup my own OpenVPN.
To find a cheap VPS hang out on lowendtalk.com / lowendbox.com
Also, tor browser.
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#156Personally, I just use OpenVPN on one of my DigitalOcean instances. I don't place a lot of reliance on a VPN for privacy (disabling JS, using Firefox's tracking protection, blocking third-party cookies, and avoiding most any social media sites are my main defenses), but I've heard fairly good stuff about Streisand if you're looking to set up at a new IP and datacenter more frequently.
One thing that's often missed is making sure you configure your local firewall to disallow all non-VPN traffic, such as startup/network initialization info.
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
#157This might sound dumb. But, I use ProtonVPN because Mozilla partnered with them and I place trust in Mozilla’s ability to make a more informed choice than I can make — largely due to their access to information and on hand knowledge and expertise. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/10/22/testing-n...
As much as I would like to support Mozilla, connecting to protonvpn.com with Firefox 65.0.1 throws me an insecure site error: Your connection is not secure The owner of protonvpn.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website. Doesn't inspire confidence.
Have you messed with your certs? It should be absolutely fine. I read over the weekend that some people were distrusting QuoVadis because or something or other to do with DarkMatter? I don't really understand too much about it, but proton use QuoVadis[0] so you'll get improper SSL for their sites if you did that.
[0]https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/au7zcz/how_to_remo...
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
#158PIA (Private Internet Access) and am a happy customer for 3rd year running. Why do I choose them? Besides the ease of use over multiple platforms, they are the only VPN (I am aware of) that has held up in court that they do not store any logs when asked to handover personal information. Sources: [1] https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-no-logging-... [2] https://www.scribd.com/doc/303226103/Fake-bomb-thre…
I have 1GB fiber, do they offer 1GB speeds? How badly would using them as my VPN affect my speed?
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
#159Express VPN. No complaints. Should switch to annual instead of monthly to save money.
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
how do you use wireguard from your phone (i assume that's what you meant by pocket). I thought wireguard was all cli based for now and no good UI (I use Linux desktop and Android phones)
There's an android app (1). Works fine. Running it 24/7. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wireguard....
Not exactly what the GP asked, but there’s also Wireguard in the iOS[0] and Mac App Stores[1].
Wireguard from the Mac App Store works successfully with Little Snitch (per-app firewall) and comes with a menubar icon that shows connectivity and allows quick switching. With the commandline-based version of Wireguard (installed from homebrew or wherever), Little Snitch sees all traffic as originating from the wireguard-go process. This is because the App Store version makes use of MacOS’s new network extension API, and Apple has only made that available to apps distributed through the App Store.