Any comments about Encrypt.me as a NordVPN alternative?
It looks much more reliable. (from their website; the team's CV's; etc -> i.e.: no hard evidence)
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#502Lmao
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#503Someone is probably going to ask what other HN users recommend as an alternative. Personally, I use Private Internet Access because they're the only provider I've found with a track record of demonstrably not being able to turn your records over to someone asking for them [1]. [1] https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-no-logging-...
ProtonVPN comes from the same people who run ProtonMail, a very well known security focused email provider.
You're being downvoted because people believe in propaganda being pushed by competitors, but ProtonVPN / ProtonMail are very good options. Plenty of links and reports by Mozilla in this thread will lend credence to that.
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#504what can a paid vpn service provide that you couldn’t get with free / open source tools?
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#505NordVPN just posted this a few minutes ago: https://nordvpn.com/blog/official-response-datacenter-breach...
NordVPN is down, also looks like VikingVPN and TorGuard were affected as well: https://twitter.com/cryptostorm_is/status/118609795032747622...
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ProtonVPN comes from the same people who run ProtonMail, a very well known security focused email provider.
You're being downvoted because people believe in propaganda being pushed by competitors, but ProtonVPN / ProtonMail are very good options. Plenty of links and reports by Mozilla in this thread will lend credence to that.
Aka the conspiracy theory that was ultimately found to be pushed by PIA, one of their direct competitors.
I've got enough HN internet points that a few downvotes will be fine. Thanks!
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Yes, on desktop. Harder to achieve with the mobile app. And as it happens, I don't use a desktop OS to play stuff that helps me fall asleep.
Just use firefox on mobile it has extension support
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#508"It's an older code, but it checks out." :D Sorry, I just couldn't help myself!
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Read the comments. The claimed suspension message was extremely unlikely to be real.
I speak Finnish, and if I'm 'google cancelled my main account'-level pissed, I just might pick a username very much like that for a site I don't really want to be on in the first place. Maybe a cultural thing. So that argument is moot. Agree with ryanlol's comment here next to mine on the rest. I'd really want more clarifications before I touch third party Youtube clients while logged in (which I want to be, for reco…
FWIW I don't think there's necessarily any link between his account getting suspended and the youtube client. Google suspends accounts for all kinds of weird reasons.
It seems really weird to me to assume that this is a troll, the other issues created by the user over a couple of weeks seem legit. I think this is just some slightly confused person trying to figure out why their account was suspended.
I get lots of legit bug reports from customers with strange inconsistencies like this mixed in, they definitely aren't trolling.
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I have a slightly dissenting answer to these questions, in the form of an interactive Q&A website: https://faq.dhol.es/@Soatok/cryptography/which-vpn-service-w...
How is this not the top comment? Nobody should be using a VPN provider, full-stop. It is structurally impossible for anyone to verify their claims, they have more incentive to lie than your ISP does, and they're cheap and easy to set up, so the industry is a cesspool. You should assume that all of them are behaving badly.
Plenty of people using VPN for: pirating, get an IP from a foreign country to bypass some content limitation etc., so they still need one, secure or not.