It is 1.85 dollars a month if one pays for 3 years. I am looking into ways of saving money so I was thinking into switching. However, I am a bit worried since 3 years ago I did the same with Nord VPN and it is sooo buggy. It rarely ever works for me. I had to switch to ProtonVPN after paying for 3 years for Nord 💀.

  • NothingButBits@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    The best VPN service is to create your own. Rent a small cloud server on a far away country, and install Open VPN. This is the best form of secrecy online, that I can think of. Of course, it’s still possible to identify you. But it seems much harder to do so.

    Either your VPN server would need to have it’s connections monitored, or access to logs from the problematic websites would be required. It’s also necessary for the company which is hosting your server to disclose that your VPN server’s IP is associated with you. And even then, if you encrypt everything in it, there is still room for plausible deniability. But all of this, is a much bigger hassle to the authorities than to just use a traditional VPN service.

    With a normal VPN, especially if they have servers in NATO countries, they will provide all logs requested to them and you’re toast. Basically, you’re paying for a false sense of security.

    • Clever_Clover [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Yes exactly this, though, I prefer wiregaurd over openvpn, instant connection times and tunnels don’t have to stay open and reconnect so you can always have it on even when moving between networks, there are certain cloud providers that can be bought from almost entirely anonymously too

  • rezifon@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    What benefit do you believe a VPN provides for you? Are you using it to fake your location for content access or do you believe that the vpn is improving your privacy somehow?

      • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
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        11 months ago

        What’s funny to me is your username is the name of a (maybe defunct, not sure) VPN service. It was known to be shitty and shady.

        Go with a company at least not located in the US. Avoid PIA, they were bought by a shady company. The ones the piracy community tends to trust would be: ProtonVPN, Mullvad, IVPN, AirVPN. Be warned Mullvad recently dropped port forwarding which really hurts torrenting connectivity and speeds. I would try for a provider that continues to allow port forwarding if you’re doing any torrent stuff.

        Privacy. Books can and are written on the subject. I’ll just say try and avoid doing things that link back to you while on the VPN. Don’t log into your bank account or email accounts (except those you have registered and only use over VPN) while on a VPN if you can help it. If you sign up for accounts on torrent sites (public or private trackers), use an email not associated with your real identity.