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

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Post by anilakar »

None for private use. The benefits are negligible, and directly SSHing into the home box is secure enough. My mobile ISP is much more reliable than any of these third party VPN providers whose customer base mainly consists of the uninformed public.

At work, I'm running whatever the customer requires us to use. I've got clients from four different vendors plus an in-house SSH-and-Bash contraption running on my workstation.

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

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Post by SCdF »

sniuff wrote: post #231
SCdF wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have lived in the UK and NZ.

Half of the web is blocked in UK

Hyperbole aside, if I ever ran up against sites that were blocked then sure: you could then get a VPN to solve that problem. Similarly, if I gave a shit about using content that is licenced differently in different countries (if I wanted the US netflix or whatever) then a VPN could be useful there as well.

That's got nothing to do with privacy particularly, which is the direction my opinion is coming from (rightly or wrongly).

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

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Post by ptaipale »

Using Freedome. Main purpose is to get around the stupid geoblocking brought in by GDPR, which often prevents me from accessing web sites from the EU. Also, while I don't think it would entirely protect me if a government agency of a superpower decided to direct its full attention to me, it'll give some protection against e.g. a criminal organisation that has infiltrated the mobile operator.

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

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Post by epynonymous »

nightfly wrote: post #174
epynonymous wrote: post #82

anyone use wireguard? i hear it’s extremely lightweight and can be used between containers, but curious if it’s beneficial for common use like netflix?

I use Wireguard for a VPN I run at work and am very happy with it. But for a use like Netflix it doesn't really make a difference compared to any other VPN technology.

i meant from a reliability/stability perspective, i guess you partly answered it in that wireguard requires you to run your own vpn servers, i assume wireguard's just a client. and how stable you can maintain your vpn servers is under your control.

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

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Post by Havoc »

sascha_sl wrote: post #202
kinkora wrote: post #145

PIA (Private Internet Access) and am a happy customer for 3rd year running. Why do I choose them? Besides the ease of use over multiple platforms, they are the only VPN (I am aware of) that has held up in court that they do not store any logs when asked to handover personal information. Sources: [1] https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-no-logging-... [2] https://www.scribd.com/doc/303226103/Fake-bomb-thre…

PIA's offer and their policy on retention might be good, but they're still a US company and they still tried to smear several other VPN companies (including ProtonVPN). Their clients are also messy memoryleaky electron apps with outdated chromium embedded.

>Their clients are also messy memoryleaky electron apps with outdated chromium embedded.

You can dial PIA with a openvpn app of your choice

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

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Post by TheGrumpyBrit »

For day to day browsing: None. For occasional VPN requirements without a serious privacy concern (bypassing geoblocks etc): The free service provided with one of my Usenet providers. If I have an actual need for privacy, I'd fire up a cheap VPS somewhere and deploy a VPN server, then dispose of it afterwards.
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