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Reason? My ISP modem basically dies when there's too many connections opened at once. So sometimes an innocent `npm install` would kill my internet for a minute...
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.
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.
Me too, although I've found that Netflix recently blocked their subnets. So even when I'm using it to be a little more secure on open wifi network, I can't stream.
http://hola.org
https://vpn.ccrypto.org/ It's plain and simple OpenVPN made by nice people, and it's only 3€/month.
Any cons to using it?
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.
Even then, don't get your hopes up. It should be worth noting that VPNs can give a false sense of security (such as not logging). All they're doing is moving the goalpost from one end of the playing field to another. They're useful for getting into internal networks, and they're useful for bypassing outbound firewalls in restrictive networks, like public schools and libraries, or churches, but that's about it. See https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
If you want online privacy, you really should be using Tor. if you want anonymity, you should stay offline. Regardless, realize your VPN provider isn't going to go to jail for you.
Various means of payment are accepted, including btc, and cash (of any(!) currency) sent by mail. OpenVPN, possible to choose from a number of countries, no limits on speed or data.
If there are other commercial VPN services that don't necessarily require you to give them any personal information (for account purposes), I'd be curious to know. Would be nice to have more alternatives.
I've always liked https://mullvad.net/en/ (Swedish company, around since a number of years), especially from a privacy point of view. You never actually enter any personal information when creating an account - no name, no email, no password, no nothing; all you get is a random unique ID. They also claim to keep no logs, point being, "When Swedish law requires us to divulge information about our customers we make sur…
I'm still essentially trusting everything they say about no logging (and trusting that it's not a honeypot) and the like but they seem to be the best I've found so far.