Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?

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Post by oevi » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 12:43 PM UTC

neiled wrote: post #15

VyperVPN has always been good to me and I've never read anything bad against it, anyone had bad experiences I should know about?

Used it while living in China and never had any problems with it. Love the native Apps (Mac, iOS) and the fast and reliable connection. I think it's worth the money.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?

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Post by goldenkey » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 12:47 PM UTC

teekert wrote: post #17

I usually SSH tunnel to my server at home or to my 5$/month Digital Ocean droplet.

Not a VPN since DO or well any US hosting company will hand over dox in a heartbeat. Most VPNs are about mixing connections and varying servers along with shortlived logs and being stubborn against subpoenas. Their market is mostly people who need to thwart geolocation for services like Netflix, security researchers aka whitehats (better to be safe than falsely accused of being malicious) and blackhats.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?

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Post by lukeholder » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 12:48 PM UTC

IVPN - got a heap of recommendations on the last HN VPN discussion.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?

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Post by CiPHPerCoder » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 12:49 PM UTC

None. VPNs can't provide any meaningful privacy: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29

Okay, that's not entirely true; I do access a company VPN, but not for privacy purposes which is probably what's implied. I use Tor for that.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?

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Post by xytop » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 12:50 PM UTC

http://hola.org

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?

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Post by rando444 » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 12:50 PM UTC

goldenkey wrote: post #22

teekert wrote: post #17

I usually SSH tunnel to my server at home or to my 5$/month Digital Ocean droplet.

Not a VPN since DO or well any US hosting company will hand over dox in a heartbeat. Most VPNs are about mixing connections and varying servers along with shortlived logs and being stubborn against subpoenas. Their market is mostly people who need to thwart geolocation for services like Netflix, security researchers aka whitehats (better to be safe than falsely accused of being malicious) and blackhats.

I think you need to look up a definition of a VPN.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?

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Post by subliminalpanda » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 12:51 PM UTC

koevet wrote: post #7

Streisand ( https://github.com/jlund/streisand ) and a cheap Europe-based Digital Ocean box.

Fantastic project.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?

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Post by quinndupont » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 12:52 PM UTC

I use BlackVPN[1], but mostly because they used to have a referral program and I ended up with several years of free service. They tend to be quite quick, have OK (but not exemplary security measures), and offer a nice range of servers for whatever your needs (geofencing, piracy, etc.).

[1] https://www.blackvpn.com/

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?

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Post by subliminalpanda » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 12:52 PM UTC

I rolled my own OpenVPN server on digital ocean. I find that having 2 instances running, one over TCP port 443 and one on UDP over an arbitrary port works great in most scenarios.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?

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Post by Udo » Wed, Jun 08, 2016, 12:53 PM UTC

gorbachev wrote: post #13

NordVPN, outside of US jurisdiction and (claims to) does no logging. The service used to be really spotty, but they really stepped it up lately.

Seconded. All my internet traffic has been going through NordVPN for more than a year now.

In the beginning, servers would go down often and you'd need to try a couple of server until you found one that actually worked. But that's changed now. They conveniently provide a list of OpenVPN config files to download, and using the service from a Linux router works really well.