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Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by donttrack »

Don’t use strongVPN. They shared my info. Got a letter from some Hollywood lawyers after someone had been running a torrent download over my VPN (would share my WiFi on and off from my phone with visiting colleagues, if they had trouble with our corporate VPN and someone probably had a movie torrent download or seed running in the background by mistake).

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by sumedh »

ej12n wrote: post #21

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 m…

I tried Mullvad, Melbourne/Sydney servers, my adsl speed dropped from 14 Mbps to 10 Mbps

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by hypertextcoffee »

ej12n wrote: post #21

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 m…

I can also rep Mullvad, they also allow people to pay in Bitcoin or even mail them money (with your account number attached) and they'll add time to your account. I've been using them for a few years now and never had any issues.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by krageon »

ej12n wrote: post #21

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 m…

If you actually care about privacy touching the US in any way, shape or form is very, very dumb.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by krageon »

aphextron wrote: post #47

There's no reason for anyone even moderately saavy to use a commercial private VPN. It's really insecure and expensive. Just use Streisand on a DigitalOcean droplet, AWS, etc. https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

If you care about privacy, don't host it on US infrastructure. There has been so much exposure about this, that should have been enough to teach you not to burn yourself.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by Talentener »

Hi. I think this resource should help you with choosing a VPN: https://vpnspecial.com/comparison-table/

I personally use NordVPN for extra security and good speeds. Another worthy consideration is VPN.ac. Or if you want there's a kinda new Surfshark VPN which supports unlimited devices and is quite fast.

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