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Tried them about a year ago, Service was pretty slow. Never heard from CS after 3 attempts. Ended up needing to go through PayPal to get my money back. Private internet access has been my goto ever since.
Now I use DigitalOcean's $5/month box running CentOS.
Why anyone would voluntarily MITM their own data and hand ALL of it over to a single company (and a single point of failure) is totally beyond me. It's a market failure that services like these continue to exist.
The difference is I can buy a VPN with BTC, not be required to provide details of my identity, and make 99% of the traffic out of my machine encrypted (which prevents significant amount of local MITM attacks, for ex at coffeeshops).
I'll be sticking with iPredator, and here's why: I don't care what my VPN client looks like -- I care about how secure it is. I have immense trust for Peter Sunde & Friends. They are not in this business to Get Rich Quick™. They are in it for deeply held moral, social reasons; reasons, so deeply held, they have put their own personal safety and freedom at risk. I feel very safe knowing they will NEVER comply with NSA…
Our goal, however, is different. We aim to bring VPN/privacy protection to people who have never heard of VPN (notice that we don't have "VPN" anywhere on our site, except for in a quote from TNW and in the help section). Despite there being 100's (if not 1000's) of VPN services out there, very few of them, sadly, care about the non-tech-savvy audience.
I want to thank the Tunnelbear guys, they've made their service free for everyone in Venezuela during the protests, to avoid government internet censorship (which is about to get worse since they are now meeting with the ISPs to implement more strict website filtering). I know they cannot offer this indefinitely but I want to thank them for their help.
Curious what logs and other personal information is kept on their servers. Haven't read through the blogs yet, but one thing a number of people consider when using a VPN service like this is the type of information that the provider keeps.
They claim that they keep no logs. http://help.tunnelbear.com/customer/portal/articles/1469449-...
Would love to see a bitcoin purchase option.
Is this openvpn based solution? I am looking for something that could bypass bluecoat...