Ask HN: Which VPN? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by ej12n » Thu, May 17, 2018, 8:25 PM UTC

IVPN (Gribaltar), Mullvad (Sweden) or PIA (U.S.) are the best bet for most users IMO. They are all fast, no logging, and have good apps.

IVPN, Mullvad are not in U.S. jurisdiction if you are concerned about that. Most people are not and just want a VPN to hide shit from ISP, etc...

Although PIA is U.S. based, they keep no logs and then they have their famous "FBI" case which they did not provide anything to them.

I myself personally use IVPN, but I have used Mullvad as well.

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-section/

This is the best resource for vpn reviews, ignore everything else.

Also https://www.privacytools.io/ is great overall and they do have a vpn section

https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/ has a bunch of more info as well.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by jasaloo » Thu, May 17, 2018, 8:42 PM UTC

NordVPN -- it's one of the best IMO for security/company location. I also made my decision via the spreadsheets and analysis from the already-mentioned https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-section/

It's $79 for two years, but they also have per-month subscriptions.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by orivej » Thu, May 17, 2018, 8:51 PM UTC

kup0 wrote: post #4

I haven't used it extensively, but so far MullvadVPN has worked well for me and they are one of thatoneprivacysite's top recommendations

I'm using Mullvad. On the plus side, their servers are the most reliable I have seen, and they provide IPv6 addresses (behind NAT, which is reasonable for privacy). On the minus side, since November 2017 they intercept DNS queries and answer them themselves (hence you can not use DNS service of your choice), unless you connect to a specific undocumented OpenVPN port (1400 or 1401) available on a small but diverse subset of their servers.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by kup0 » Thu, May 17, 2018, 8:57 PM UTC

orivej wrote: post #23

kup0 wrote: post #4

I haven't used it extensively, but so far MullvadVPN has worked well for me and they are one of thatoneprivacysite's top recommendations

I'm using Mullvad. On the plus side, their servers are the most reliable I have seen, and they provide IPv6 addresses (behind NAT, which is reasonable for privacy). On the minus side, since November 2017 they intercept DNS queries and answer them themselves (hence you can not use DNS service of your choice), unless you connect to a specific undocumented OpenVPN port (1400 or 1401) available on a small but diverse sub…

Interesting. Good info to know. Have they specified a reason for intercepting DNS?

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by diaz » Thu, May 17, 2018, 9:07 PM UTC

mpfundstein wrote: post #15

ProtonVPN is super good

And there's the free tier which has served me well too.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by hbcondo714 » Thu, May 17, 2018, 9:17 PM UTC

jasaloo wrote: post #22

NordVPN -- it's one of the best IMO for security/company location. I also made my decision via the spreadsheets and analysis from the already-mentioned https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-section/ It's $79 for two years, but they also have per-month subscriptions.

I got turned off by their tv commercials. They are really marketing towards the "clean your PC" crowd

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by suh_dude » Thu, May 17, 2018, 9:18 PM UTC

summadat wrote: post #20

blacksmith_tb wrote: post #5

I have a Streisand[1] server running at DO, it's been good. People also like Algo[2] but I haven't tried it. 1: https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand 2: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

Algo all day every day, good stuff, use it.

Yep, this.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by jmarinez » Thu, May 17, 2018, 9:58 PM UTC

SomaVPN - currently in beta Based on Algo and Wireguard

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by kasey_junk » Thu, May 17, 2018, 10:00 PM UTC

Earlier today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17091618

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by botskonet » Thu, May 17, 2018, 10:02 PM UTC

I currently use IPVanish. I'm pleased with the uptime and service. Every now and then I get disconnected and everything reverts to using my normal connection, which isn't very secure.