F*, just renewed at $49.99 for a year.
Cancelling automatically downgrades, how unreasonable.
TunnelBear Joins McAfee
51–60 of 110 posts
Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Background: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29 Best recommendation: Get a cheap server from LowEndBox and setup OpenVPN (or, hopefully in 2019, WireGuard) for your less tech-oriented friends.
That'll only get you a single IP in a single country though.
If you need rotating IP addresses, in various jurisdictions, why would you even be looking at VPN services? Just use Tor.
Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
That'll only get you a single IP in a single country though.
If you need rotating IP addresses, in various jurisdictions, why would you even be looking at VPN services? Just use Tor.
The use case there is: I need to fool this one site's geo restrictions into thinking that I'm from this particular country, but only for the time it takes me to get what I need from this site. Tor doesn't really serve this type of requirement.
Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee
#54Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee
#55Nice while it lasted. Any alternative recommendations for less tech-oriented folks? TunnelBear has been what I pointed friends and relations towards historically.
Mullvad ( https://mullvad.net/en/ ) is the highest rated VPN service by That One Privacy Site[0] and it's pretty easy to use. It's what I use, check it out! [0] https://thatoneprivacysite.net/2017/10/03/mullvad-review/
I’ve been using Mullvad for a few months and it’s been working pretty well so far—no complaints here. Not sure if it’s standard practice, but I really dig the passwordless account number only login.
Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee
#56I'll save you the trouble of ctrl+f'ing: "We’d like to thank you for being part of the journey so far, and we look forward to sharing more about our plans in the coming weeks." https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
This one was only a regular journey though. Must have been less money than the usual buyouts
Perhaps it was still incredible by previous years standards, but it did not keep up with the journey inflation?
Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee
#57This is the opposite of privacy and you should be ashamed. You sold all of your customers’ info to Intel/McAfee at a price.
They have a very detailed and plainly written privacy policy which details what information is gathered and how it is used. If their customers put a premium on privacy they should have read the privacy policy prior to using the service and understood Tunnelbear's obligations under it. As long as Tunnelbear has met them they have nothing to be ashamed of. It even addresses the possibility of being acquired and the imp…
>If their customers put a premium on privacy they should have read the privacy policy prior to using the service and understood Tunnelbear's obligations under it
If you don't want to be poisoned you should read every food label of every food item you ever consume. Why make laws preventing manufacturers from poisoning some food when consumers can just read the label to find out which ones are poisoned!
We should have sensible defaults. Not this nonsense where it is seen as acceptable to screw over consumers with carefully worded legalese.
Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee
#58This is the opposite of privacy and you should be ashamed. You sold all of your customers’ info to Intel/McAfee at a price.
To add insult to injury, they collected tens of thousands of dollars in Q3 and Q4 of 2017 from the National Research Council of Canada: $45,000 : https://nrc-cnrc.explorecatena.com/en/details/LOakjNa8v3uKlv... $20,000 : https://nrc-cnrc.explorecatena.com/en/details/gk2Mb423DZh69n... $20,000 : https://nrc-cnrc.explorecatena.com/en/details/wkBxj3BzKrhwr6...
I don't know why exactly, but that really pisses me off. I'd love to see the Feds go after them for that money, but I doubt Mr. Dress-up or his government would ever do such a thing.
Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee
#59Nice while it lasted. Any alternative recommendations for less tech-oriented folks? TunnelBear has been what I pointed friends and relations towards historically.
Mullvad ( https://mullvad.net/en/ ) is the highest rated VPN service by That One Privacy Site[0] and it's pretty easy to use. It's what I use, check it out! [0] https://thatoneprivacysite.net/2017/10/03/mullvad-review/
I'll give another +1 for Mullvad. They're servers are damn fast too, for what it's worth, on top of a pretty great privacy policy.
Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've found NordVPN very good and easy to use: https://nordvpn.com/
For what it's worth, I regret switching to NordVPN. It's unstable for me (it can drop out during peak times and I regularly have to switch server), their Mac software isn't great (struggles to reconnect on wake, poor UI, Electron app), I get random European endpoints despite always choosing the UK (meaning I can't use iPlayer which is region locked to the UK), and it's very slow compared to my previous provider (I ha…
I agree. NordVPN is nice most of the time (at least for me), but its UI is clunky and incredibly slow when searching for a particular server. I've also been experiencing major connection issues over the past few months, so that's been annoying to say the least.