If you need it only for web browsing, than I highly recommend the free VPN that’s now integrated in developer release of Opera. https://www.opera.com/computer/beta On iOS, all traffic goes through it. http://www.opera.com/apps/vpn
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#32Roll your own! Setting up your own, private VPN can be done quite easily with https://github.com/jlund/streisand and a DigitalOcean account. Costs $5 per month. It doesn't require a whole lot of technical competence either, as the Streisand project configures just about everything for you.
Very often point of using VPN is to get away from one jurisdiction and censorship to a provider which offers endpoints in more countries. Getting own server with VPN basically puts a person under different jurisdiction, you're on you're own with supporting and maintaining it. Public-IP VPNs mix your traffic with other traffic and make single person harder to track. It requires a lot of specialized knowledge about protocols and encryptions, heart-beats, pings, system network buffers, setting up firewalls, will I ever need IPSec or PPTP? I don't know... I tried, learnt a lot and gave up quite quickly, too much stuff to handle.
~ Happy TorGuard and TigerVPN user.
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#33I always liked mullvad, but they don't offer multiple countries and stuff. It really comes down for what you need it actually.
But they do nowadays. I used to be a customer and used to connected to american servers for example.
Thats strange, guess they changed their TOS then. There is no way they can provide the same privacy they did back then on a US Server :/
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#34I've been using Tunnelbear( https://www.tunnelbear.com/ ) for a couple of years now and my experience has been fantastic: • It doesn't keep activity logs. • Their tunnel network has been recently improved and it counts something like 20 countries at the moment. • It's really fast and it keeps your device safe even in the possibility of a connection issue, it will block all unsecured traffic until it's possible to pro…
On iOS, it's free up to 500MB/mo, $4/mo after. Their app has VPN auto-reconnect on iOS, which is useful because iOS does not seem to support always-on VPNs (except for "enterprise").
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#35Huge fan of getcloak.com. Osx/ios only, but Android coming soon. Been a paid customer for four or five years.
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#36With Verizon becoming an ad company and AT&T showing signs of the same thing, I was wondering what would be involved in having my home's router automatically and permanently connect to a VPN service to keep my data from my ISP? I understand the performance hit would be huge (I have a gigabit fiber connection), but as long as I can still stream MLB and Netflix, I'd be happy.
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#37I use https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ on recommendation from a colleague, and I'm pretty happy. No logs, plenty servers, no real issues, and they recently shut down their Russian server due to imminent privacy concerns. So I feel that they have their priorities straight. I used https://www.frootvpn.com/ briefly when it was free - seemed ok too, but not many servers back then. Depends really what you want to us…
+1 for PIA UK exit nodes work for watching BBC. Plus as a bonus they have recently implemented an option that block ads and malware on a DNS level. There are apps for iOS, macOS and Windows. It can also work without the app and be setup on a router level to protect the entire network.
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#39If you need it only for web browsing, than I highly recommend the free VPN that’s now integrated in developer release of Opera. https://www.opera.com/computer/beta On iOS, all traffic goes through it. http://www.opera.com/apps/vpn
Opera has been acquired by a Chinese consortium, https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/25/operas-shareholders-greenl...
Re: Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend?
#40I use https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ on recommendation from a colleague, and I'm pretty happy. No logs, plenty servers, no real issues, and they recently shut down their Russian server due to imminent privacy concerns. So I feel that they have their priorities straight. I used https://www.frootvpn.com/ briefly when it was free - seemed ok too, but not many servers back then. Depends really what you want to us…
They seem to have some ongoing issues with their client - there have been speed issues with the last couple of releases, on Windows at least.
I've had to regress to an earlier version or I get DNS timeouts galore with v60. There's quite a few open threads on their forums about this.
Aside from that, their IPs seem to regularly get hit with Cloudflare captcha. Usually, but not always, switching to a different exit will fix, for a while at least.
I've not found anyone better though.