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Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew

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Post by ficklepickle »

upbeat_general wrote: post #145
beermonster wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Maybe someone can enlighten me why these services exist and what usecase they have? Because there are lots of people that can't create their own VPN even though these days you can spin up a lightsail instance for $3.50 pcm and be up and running with Wireguard in minutes. And for those people that cannot, their threat model changes to now needing to trust a single entity after they are up in minutes. As you say, tho…

Also many websites will block cloud services IPs. This can also happen with 3rd party providers but in my experience it’s much less common because some vpn providers will buy residential IPs. It also can be nice to get a new IP more or less whenever you want by just connecting to a different, already setup server.

The only websites to block my AWS IP are streaming providers like Netflix.

I don't believe VPN providers are buying residential IPs. They use a p2p architecture and route traffic through their customers, usually without informing them. If I do use a commercial VPN service, I prefer to use the openVPN client rather than their proprietary client.

Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew

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Post by StavrosK »

wwwwwwwww wrote: post #26
vmception wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do they take bitcoin? I’ve seen various invoicing systems that completely break in Tor+JS and in all noJS environments. If they shoehorned bitpay in, its probably not tapping into the utility of having bitcoin payment options. I like paying invoices with Monero over Tor, while the merchant receives bitcoin that a third party pushed to them. I’ve been doing that for at least half a decade. But if I can’t access th…

They show you a BTC address and you send BTC to that address. Whatever arrives at the address is credited to your account. No "invoicing system" involved.

How do things like Morphtoken and Xmr.to handle the $20 Bitcoin transfer fee?

Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew

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Post by onychomys »

boring_twenties wrote: post #144
dheera wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I totally understand using a VPN service if you're trying to access the internet from another location, e.g. to get past the China firewall or get access to content from a different copyright jurisdiction. However, I don't fully understand the privacy argument. It would seem to be that instead of handing over your entire DNS query history and unencrypted HTTP history to your own corporate IT department or the Starbuc…

Personally if I'm going to hand over my history to someone, I'd rather it be anyone but Comcast.

This is my feeling too. Also, I know for a fact that my ISP would be watching me browse (thanks for nothing, Ajit Pai!), while a VPN at least promises not to. The uncertainty of whether they're telling the truth on that is still better than knowing 100% on the ISP side.

Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew

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Post by miniyarov »

Rather than depending on VPN services, I use Cloud Providers because, at least, I know that my server isn't logging me for sure. However, it is hard to deploy a VPN server on cloud providers right from your phone. That's why I developed zudvpn.com

Completely open-source with DNS Ad blocking features and even a terminal to connect to the server.

Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zudvpn-personal-vpn-on-cloud/i... Github: https://github.com/zudvpn/zudvpn

Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew

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Post by StavrosK »

vmception wrote: post #118
_muff1nman_ wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

xmr.to has recently shut down[1]. It would be nice to see more services accepting monero directly. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/la46ds/xmrto_servic...

that's too bad, thanks for spreading the word One day people will figure out how to connect XMR to other chains, really unlocking its value and utility for those markets

I think that's scheduled for September this year.

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

lebaux wrote: post #70
WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #63

From the thread: >The secret to not dealing with crapty company practices is to avoid ones that advertise literally everywhere 24/7 nonstop around every single corner you look. This is so true it nearly qualifies as physics.

* This is so true it nearly qualifies as physics. I am going to (over)use this phrase from now on. Thank you.

Oh nice. I wasn't sure how it would land.

Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew

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Post by symlinkk »

notRobot wrote: post #5

Honestly, nothing holds up to Mullvad [1]. They don't even take an email address while creating accounts, and you can pay easily with Bitcoin or even with cash mailed to them. I'm not affiliated, just a very happy customer. Mullvad is also who Mozilla trusts for the Mozilla VPN [2]. You can sign up with that if you'd like Mozilla to get a cut. [1]: https://mullvad.net/ [2]: https://vpn.mozilla.org/

Who runs Mullvad? Am I supposed to just blindly trust these people with my entire internet activity?

Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew

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Post by glenneroo »

LordHeini wrote: post #7

Why are these VPNs even a thing? The only reason i would use one is to get cheaper steam keys from brasil and for that i can get a free one. From a security standpoint it is awful because you increase the number of providers you have to trust. Apart from your ISP and the server you connect to, you got a third party involved for no reason. And VPNs can not that trustworhty as shown by the leaks of logs and what not. M…

My bank blacklisted me from their online banking portal because of a "suspicious IP". After submitting a number of automated requests to my bank's new security website (a company in another country and only available in a different language), I found out that my IP was marked as dangerous because I ran a Tor service at some point in the past. I hadn't been running it for months but they still had my IP tagged as potentially malicious which was enough for my bank to distrust my ip. I should also note that I also had a static IP back then, which due to this ban, I subsequently disabled. In the mean time I've moved all my external facing (mostly Raspberry Pi) services to VPN and plan to finally re-activate static IP.

Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew

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Post by that_guy_iain »

iFreilicht wrote: post #100
fasicle wrote: post #77

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Audible might be the exception, I'm very happy with it.

Very crappy if you want to cancel after you forgot to get new audiobooks for a few months. You lose all your credit, and they don’t say that during the cancellation process. I gifted 6 months of payment to Audible just because they avoided to inform me about that.

They also have a limit on the number of active credits you can have. I luckily found this out via someone else. But yea that part of Audible sucks massively. But I wouldn't be shocked if you emailed customer support they would just give you the credits, it's Amazon after all. Also, if you sign up and the system doesn't say you're eligble for a 30 free trial, customer support will give it to you. I found that one out when my payment method wouldn't work and I cheekily asked and they hooked me up.

Re: NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew

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Post by moonchild »

rsync wrote: post #161
notRobot wrote: post #5

Honestly, nothing holds up to Mullvad [1]. They don't even take an email address while creating accounts, and you can pay easily with Bitcoin or even with cash mailed to them. I'm not affiliated, just a very happy customer. Mullvad is also who Mozilla trusts for the Mozilla VPN [2]. You can sign up with that if you'd like Mozilla to get a cut. [1]: https://mullvad.net/ [2]: https://vpn.mozilla.org/

"Honestly, nothing holds up to ... (VPN provider)" If you're serious you send a machine, that you own, to a colo provider and you register for service with a corporate entity that you created for just that purpose. Your name exists nowhere and ... regulatory inquiries are directed to your corporate contact email. Or, if you feel like that's a heavy burden and you don't attach any value to the physical machine (some o…

If you're serious, you use tor.

If just you want to torrent the last season of game of thrones (why would you?) then a reasonably reputable no-log vpn service will probably do a perfectly fine job.

If you want to access non-https websites from coffee shops, buy a $5/mo vps from amazon/prgmr/digitalocean/whomever and tunnel through it.

I don't see a situation in which the dedicated colocated hardware is the right choice.

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