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"For example, over 70% of early Beta-testers say that the VPN helps them feel empowered, safe, and independent while being online." What have these "feelings" got to do with anything? This is a measure of successful marketing and has nothing to do with the product or its efficacy. Personally I use Windscribe and I really like it (I've used PIA & Mullvad in the past). I use it for watching US Netflix and to make it sl…
Every single time I start researching VPN services I end up more confused and with more questions than before because basically every vouched service has the same amount of negative comments too. Like feels like the whole sector is a honeypot (lol) of shady stuff and also they figthing against each other (or not?). So I just wait until when turns out Mullvad is also one of the bad guys.
Ask yourself why you want a VPN. Is it to avoid your ISP collecting browsing data off you and selling it? Perhaps using 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 as your DNS might be good enough. Is it to watch geo region blocked videos? Then pretty much any service will work for you. Except that video streaming sites have caught on and blocked hosting provider IP blocks. So that might require you to shop around. Do you want the most priva…
8.8.8.8 is Google’s DNS so you’re really just trading being tracked by an ISP to a giant advertising company...
> At Mozilla, we are working hard to build products to help you control of your privacy and stay safe online. > We know that we are on the right path to building a VPN that makes your online experience safer Commercial VPNs are good for censorship circumvention or location spoofing. It is irresponsible to market VPNs as something which “protects” you online. In reality, they do nothing to improve security, and very l…
Forget the VPN--I already have a VPN provider and I have no interest in changing. Offer a paid e-mail service, on the other hand, and I'd sign on up Day 1.
This right here. And a hosted suite of productivity tools that have documented, public formats that contain all of your data (and not just a link to the cloud-hosted copies). Amazing that GSuite's only real competitor in 2020 in Office365.
It's a rebranding of Mullvad. I'm happy with Mullvad itself, and while I think Firefox is the most important browser I'm not very happy about Mozilla arguably destroying its brand and seemingly pivoting away from maintaining it. I'd directly pay for the development of FF, but not Mozilla's "btw, we now sell $completely_unrelated_product_without_even_an_ethical_business_model". They seem to be relatively safe from for…
Also, your complaint about an ethical business model seems unfounded, especially in this instance.
"For example, over 70% of early Beta-testers say that the VPN helps them feel empowered, safe, and independent while being online." What have these "feelings" got to do with anything? This is a measure of successful marketing and has nothing to do with the product or its efficacy. Personally I use Windscribe and I really like it (I've used PIA & Mullvad in the past). I use it for watching US Netflix and to make it sl…
People buy on emotions
"For example, over 70% of early Beta-testers say that the VPN helps them feel empowered, safe, and independent while being online." What have these "feelings" got to do with anything? This is a measure of successful marketing and has nothing to do with the product or its efficacy. Personally I use Windscribe and I really like it (I've used PIA & Mullvad in the past). I use it for watching US Netflix and to make it sl…
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It goes w/o saying but most if not all the cloud providers map IP to account, so using a VPS may have get your account sanctioned or revoked. Defiantly don't spin up these VPN/VPSs on an account you don't mind losing.
Have received DMCA emails from DigitalOcean for torrenting on their boxes. Can confirm.
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>Want to do something illegal? Don't expect a VPN to save you. I'm not condoning piracy, but VPNs are generally a foolproof way to avoid DMCA letters from your ISP. Privacy means something different to every individual, everyone's threat model is different. And many models can benefit from a VPN; journalists, activists, and many others might find benefit from using a VPN.
Are DMCA letters still a thing? It seems like Torrenting died out significantly over the last 5 years.
"For example, over 70% of early Beta-testers say that the VPN helps them feel empowered, safe, and independent while being online." What have these "feelings" got to do with anything? This is a measure of successful marketing and has nothing to do with the product or its efficacy. Personally I use Windscribe and I really like it (I've used PIA & Mullvad in the past). I use it for watching US Netflix and to make it sl…