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Re: VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs

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Post by santa_boy »

tptacek wrote: post #6

To steal (and paraphrase) what is basically the perfect summary of this from @SwiftOnSecurity: Commercial VPNs: for when you want all the security of Ukrainian coffee-house wifi from the comfort of your own home. Taylor Swift isn't wrong about this. Use something like Algo to run your own VPN if you have to. If you must use a commercial VPN to get to Netflix or whatever, do it from inside a virtual machine that you u…

Does this really work? I tried Netflix from my DigitalOcean virtual machine but it throws the usual error "You seem to be using an unblocker or proxy"

Re: VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs

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Post by smaps »

sp00ls wrote: post #193

Lol this site is a joke, how much is TunnelBear paying him for the top spot? They're the only VPN provider I see consistently spending money on marketing and sponsoring YouTube videos. 'Fun to use'..what? I don't care if my VPN is 'fun', I want it to protect my privacy. He mentions that 2 of the VPNs are 'uninspired'. Sorry, I didn't realize that tunneling traffic to protect privacy was an art project and not a techn…

Agreed on PIA being good with no major issues here either

Re: VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs

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Post by cityzen »

sp00ls wrote: post #193

Lol this site is a joke, how much is TunnelBear paying him for the top spot? They're the only VPN provider I see consistently spending money on marketing and sponsoring YouTube videos. 'Fun to use'..what? I don't care if my VPN is 'fun', I want it to protect my privacy. He mentions that 2 of the VPNs are 'uninspired'. Sorry, I didn't realize that tunneling traffic to protect privacy was an art project and not a techn…

I agree. I have been using PIA for years and though it is not always blazing fast, it does the job and is very easy to use on both OSX and iOS. I found it really strange that PIA was the only one that hit all 9 of the highly desirable but was "very transactional". I felt the same way about the "fun to use" thing.

Re: VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs

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Post by Raphmedia »

I strongly recommend using That One Privacy Site's detailed VPN comparison charts. There is a lot more information in there.

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/

Edit: Link to his charts as a Google Document https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L72gHJ5bTq0Djljz0P-N... for a much better usability than the widget on the website itself.

Re: VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs

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Post by sp00ls »

mirimir wrote: post #116
bpicolo wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That stock photo of kids on bikes on their homepage feels so out of place hah

They're going for Mom, apple pie and so on :)

Which is so strange because in in the technical category they're one of the best. Shopping for a VPN provider 2 years ago I almost passed them right by due to how the site looks. So glad I dug a little deeper and eventually chose them because the service 'just works' and 2 years later I don't have a single complaint.

Re: VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs

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Post by wyclif »

jwfxpr wrote: post #191
wyclif wrote: post #142

He didn't review OpenVPN, or even mention it.

Because OpenVPN is a VPN technology (and client) that can be used for secure connections, rather than a subscription VPN service. Unless you mean Private Tunnel VPN, their VPN subscription product? It's one of many, many products not reviewed here.

Thanks, that distinction is helpful :)

Re: VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs

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Post by bigtunacan »

sp00ls wrote: post #193

Lol this site is a joke, how much is TunnelBear paying him for the top spot? They're the only VPN provider I see consistently spending money on marketing and sponsoring YouTube videos. 'Fun to use'..what? I don't care if my VPN is 'fun', I want it to protect my privacy. He mentions that 2 of the VPNs are 'uninspired'. Sorry, I didn't realize that tunneling traffic to protect privacy was an art project and not a techn…

I was wondering this as well. Very low quality; seems like more shill advertising. I've been using Windscribe for years and I've only experienced a disconnect once EVER. It's also dead simple to setup and use; basically it's a one click install, then one click to connect (maybe 2 or 3 if you want to switch to a different location), but this is part of his review for Windscribe, "Ultimately, couldn't get a proper connection working."

Re: VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs

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Post by DavideNL »

sp00ls wrote: post #193

Lol this site is a joke, how much is TunnelBear paying him for the top spot? They're the only VPN provider I see consistently spending money on marketing and sponsoring YouTube videos. 'Fun to use'..what? I don't care if my VPN is 'fun', I want it to protect my privacy. He mentions that 2 of the VPNs are 'uninspired'. Sorry, I didn't realize that tunneling traffic to protect privacy was an art project and not a techn…

Agree, i wonder why this has so many upvotes...

Anyway, for a better VPN comparison with actual objective facts, check https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/ and https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L72gHJ5bTq0Djljz0P-N...

Re: VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs

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Post by charlieflowers »

deckar01 wrote: post #110
charlieflowers wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PIA used to be fast, a year ago. Somehow at times they were faster than my underlying connection! Now, they're _much_ slower. Surely it's not just me.

I have not noticed any change in speed. I did use an ISP at one point that would throttle high bandwidth VPN traffic pretty aggressively though.

Wow, surprising. I thought I'd see a lot of "me too" responses.

So maybe it _is_ just me, or my ISP throttles encrypted traffic, or ....

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