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Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
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Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
#272PIA (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'm a happy PIA customer but their app certainly lacks polish and has crappy icons - if you care about that stuff :)
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#273Cyberghost.
I was cheap.
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
#274PIA (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…
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#275The first question you should ask is why you want a VPN. Because I believe many people newer ask this question and have some vague idea about "it somehow improves security and/or privacy". In most situations this likely isn't true. You add an additional attack vector and you centralize your communication to a single point.
IMHO, the only valid use-case for one of these VPN services is to hide your traffic from your ISP. Perhaps there's a small improvement in terms of your privacy (the VPN service has less incentive to sell your traffic data than your ISP). But if security is your primary concern, I think you will have to look elsewhere.
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#276If you use something like sshuttle, you can use any arbitrary VPS. If you insist on openVPN, however, you can always: $ sudo apt install openVPN and run your own VPN instance. But then again, openVPN requires an excessive amount of configuration, in order to achieve something as menial as a key exchange. The silly thing is that it does not achieve more than what "ssh-copy-id" does, without all the silly ceremonies. B…
"If you use something like sshuttle, you can use any arbitrary VPS..."
If I may expand this a bit - you can use any system anywhere that you have an ssh login to. There is no server side software requirement - you just need to have a login and the "server" needs to have python installed.
It's really a fantastic VPN model and I recommend looking into it.
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#277I apologise if this is unhelpful: but none. I trust the (more than not at all) regulated space of ISPs in my country more than I do the unregulated space of people running VPNs out of their basements. It's important to be clear: you're just moving trust from one entity (your ISP) to another (the company / human who runs the VPN). It's not clear to me why the VPN people are more trustworthy than ISPs.
> It's not clear to me why the VPN people are more trustworthy than ISPs. In my country, the UK, ISPs are legally required to retain logs of customer activity for 12 months. A VPN has no such legal requirement. So while I can't be 100% sure that my VPN is monitoring me, I can be 100% sure my ISP is. Additionally, my VPN has a financial incentive not to log customer data, or at the very least, not to be caught doing i…
+1 for IVPN...I've been using it for more than a year. I use both the client and openvpn versions. A heads up...in the whack a mole back and forth amazon, netflix, etc. will not allow you to connect from IVPN known IP addresses. That's not an issue for me, I'm not using it to get around country restrictions but if you do plan to do that IVPN may not be your best bet.
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#278I am running Algo VPN on DigitalOcean. OpenVPN has issues: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo/blob/master/docs/faq.md#...
Edit: I am also testing out AzireVPN as they have WireGuard support.
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#279I don't know what your needs are, but for me I needed a VPN for when I was using public networks at conferences and airports.
I've simply setup OpenVPN on a little server I have sitting in my house. It's been very reliable and simple to manage and has covered my needs.
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
#280I don't know what your needs are, but for me I needed a VPN for when I was using public networks at conferences and airports. I've simply setup OpenVPN on a little server I have sitting in my house. It's been very reliable and simple to manage and has covered my needs.
Along these lines, I recently switched from OpenVPN running on a (powerful) server in my home (primarily a NAS) to WireGuard running directly on my gateway (Unifi Security Gateway by Ubiquiti). Despite running on far less capable hardware, WireGuard is magnitudes faster. Not only that but setting up WG was perfectly intuitive. I highly, highly recommend it.