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Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by fwdpropaganda »

ej12n wrote: post #21

IVPN (Gribaltar), Mullvad (Sweden) or PIA (U.S.) are the best bet for most users IMO. They are all fast, no logging, and have good apps. IVPN, Mullvad are not in U.S. jurisdiction if you are concerned about that. Most people are not and just want a VPN to hide shit from ISP, etc... Although PIA is U.S. based, they keep no logs and then they have their famous "FBI" case which they did not provide anything to them. I m…

> Although PIA is U.S. based, they keep no logs and then they have their famous "FBI" case which they did not provide anything to them.

You know the NSA just puts a gag order and connects directly to the targets infrastructure. Doesn't matter that PIA doesn't keep logs, NSA's prism is logging everything.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by donttrack »

Express VPN if you don’t want to bother with setting up your own server.

If you want to setup your own server, then Streisand.

I used both and they work well. Using ExpressVPN right now in China.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by inertial »

Lots of prior info available

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14974383

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13425728

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249523

Also DIY options :

https://github.com/ttlequals0/autovpn

https://github.com/jlund/streisand

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install

https://github.com/robbintt/popup-openvpn

https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by vpnless »

hbcondo714 wrote: post #26
jasaloo wrote: post #22

NordVPN -- it's one of the best IMO for security/company location. I also made my decision via the spreadsheets and analysis from the already-mentioned https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-section/ It's $79 for two years, but they also have per-month subscriptions.

I got turned off by their tv commercials. They are really marketing towards the "clean your PC" crowd

Their tv commercials are so bad I got turned off by vpn.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by ereyes01 »

aphextron wrote: post #47

There's no reason for anyone even moderately saavy to use a commercial private VPN. It's really insecure and expensive. Just use Streisand on a DigitalOcean droplet, AWS, etc. https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

Can't echo this enough. Without a VPN, your ISP can see some of your traffic (unencrypted + who you talk to). When you use a commercial VPN, the ability to snoop like your ISP just transfers to them. As much as we love to hate our ISPs, some of those services seem pretty shady by my estimation, and have very little oversight / no barriers to being unscrupulous.

Streisand is just a couple commands + whatever steps your cloud provider requires to get API keys. Take advantage of different regions to place your VPN(s) wherever you want in the world. Each installation comes with detailed instructions to configure VPN clients on your desktop or phone. Works great once you've got it running, and probably ends up being cheaper than most of those other shady services.

Re: Ask HN: Which VPN?

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Post by digianarchist »

aphextron wrote: post #47

There's no reason for anyone even moderately saavy to use a commercial private VPN. It's really insecure and expensive. Just use Streisand on a DigitalOcean droplet, AWS, etc. https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

What if the VPS provider logs? My guess would be that DO keep logs of assigned IP to account which is arguably worse than what is done by the private VPNs.
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