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Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?

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Post by mirimir »

doorbellguy wrote: post #72
mirimir wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you're using a VPN service that provides its own IPv6 address, as well as an IPv4 address, it's crucial that you disable IPv6 and/or use a firewall to block IPv6 traffic. Or at least, it is if your ISP provides IPv6 service. If it does, and the VPN both routes IPv6 and doesn't push its own IPv6 address, IPv6-capable websites will see a global IPv6 address that's owned by your ISP.

Thank you very very much.

De nada.

https://test-ipv6.com/ is a good test site.

Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?

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Post by epynonymous »

crsv wrote: post #7

ExpressVPN has been a really great experience in terms of price and ease of use. Been a customer for a few years now.

also use expressvpn, close to 4 years now, it’s typically quite stable and i live shanghai, the updates are quite frequent, i suppose it’s to circumvent or make the service more available and the locations are plentiful. the cost is pretty high, 99 usd a year, but if you refer enough users, there’s a 20 usd discount.

the speeds are not great, but it just maybe because i’m in china, i couldnt watch hbo go or stream netflix at the time, i use it generally for programming.

Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?

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Post by mirimir »

eyeball wrote: post #79
mirimir wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's an old HN thread about it. Basically, the ProtonMail and PIA CEOs got in a catfight, and traded accusations. I don't recall what PIA was accused of. Maybe connections with China? But I've seen nothing more about that. The PIA CEO basically claimed that Tesonet operated ProtonVPN for the ProtonMail team. And then additional articles appeared, detailing the connections. And adding NordVPN to the mix. But many o…

Well that blows. I just set up a proton mail account and was going to migrate from gmail.

There might really be nothing to it, as the Proton* people claim. Or at least, just a somewhat iffy roll-out of their VPN, using Tesonet staff.

But on the other hand, I gather that Mozilla has picked ProtonVPN for its integrated VPN testing. And they seem competent and privacy-friendly.

Also, whatever they did with ProtonVPN, there's no reason to believe that there's anything wrong with ProtonMail. That's arguably their core competency. And they arguably brought in Tesonet because VPNs were not part of their core competency.

Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?

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Post by goatsi »

eyeball wrote: post #79
mirimir wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's an old HN thread about it. Basically, the ProtonMail and PIA CEOs got in a catfight, and traded accusations. I don't recall what PIA was accused of. Maybe connections with China? But I've seen nothing more about that. The PIA CEO basically claimed that Tesonet operated ProtonVPN for the ProtonMail team. And then additional articles appeared, detailing the connections. And adding NordVPN to the mix. But many o…

Well that blows. I just set up a proton mail account and was going to migrate from gmail.

If you are migrating away from a centralized email provider you should move to a personal domain. That way you won't be trapped by any service in the future. There are numerous companies[0] that you can point your domain to and they will handle everything else. This costs a bit of money but it means that you will be the customer rather than the product.

[0] I use migadu.com but fastmail.com seems to be very popular with the HN crowd.

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