What VPN have you switched to after the Mullvad situation. I have looked at nym and ivpn. But don’t know if they are any good.
I have 5 days left, looks like I’m not gonna renew.
I find the support of that political party pretty disturbing.I think I am just going to use tor for general browsing. Mullvad IP addresses get blocked just as much as tor these days anyway.
On Android you can use InviZible Pro to get Tor, I2P, and DNSCrypt
Aaaaaaannnnnd just like that, I have a new toy to play with.
What an epic recommendation. Thank, I haven’t heard of InviZible Pro before.
I use AirVpn as they allow port forwarding and are reasonably priced. They are no logs and allow payment through non-bank methods
Had a bad experience with Nym. It’s not compatible with GrapheneOS. It runs, but there’s a data limit that in my experience kept getting artificially hit by the forming and breaking of connections that occurs when switching GOS profiles. Maybe this happens less on stock Android?
Regardless, I had to keep contacting their support for extensions. In 6 years, I haven’t yet had to contact Mullvad support. It just works!
I experienced DNS leaks when Nym claimed it was ‘fully’ connected. Mullvad.net could ‘see’ where I was located. That’s not considering that in general the connection with Nym was much slower than Mullvad. Nym offered me an extended free trial, but I haven’t claimed it yet. Reckon they’ll need another couple of years to iron out the obvious issues.
In summary, Nym felt like a very early prototype much more than a production-ready service.
I’m a happy IVPN user. Small team, privacy enthusiasts, transparent, great products. Just a heads up, some IVPN subscription tiers offer MailX (email aliases, like SimpleLogin), ModDNS (like Contro-D or NextDNS) and Portmaster (app firewall, and SPN network, inspired on TOR). It’s hard to compete!
I switched from Mullvad before this because they thought I was paying 5 EUR each month to solve a captcha on their website. Proton VPN is what I’m using rn.
Tell me more, are they asking you to authenticate often?
Not OP but I solve a ton of Captchas…
if you want even more, use fextralife. outside of that I rarely see them with mullvad
Personally I’m not using any of them that haven’t been raided and proven not to keep records and as far as I know Mullvad is the only one who fits that bill.
I use Proton VPN, but also exist self-hosted VPNs which is better
How does a selfhosted VPN work? I thought the purpose was to offload the connection so the ISP only saw the company IP…which is this case is an IP toed to your location?
Yes, a self-hosted VPN could reveal your IP, so you must hire a VPS server to host your VPN, so the IP you reveal is that of the VPS server located somewhere else, in turn you can configure proxies to mask the same IP of your VPS
Is this then not essentially the same thing, paying for a remote access IP to mask your traffic?
I am not against it or anything I just dont get the difference.
That’s true, but without VPS u should configure a good proxies
From what I understand, the use case for a self-hosted vpn is pretty different
You can benefit from both a commercial VPN provider as well as at-home hosted.
My Asus WRT router, which I flashed with Merlin firmware, has a feature called “VPN Director”, I can connect to 5 different VPN clients at a time and forward my devices connections individually through each one.
My Asus router also has the option to host a WireGuard Server which i then forward through one of the VPN clients with the VPN director.
Essentially creating a multi-hop network, the flow goes a little like such;
Device -> WireGuard Tunnel -> Home Network -> WireGuard Tunnel -> Commercial VPN Server
The commercial VPN is my endpoint therefore what the internet sees when I browse however I also benefit from my PiHole which handles my DNS queries an blocklists.
Yes, u can choose remove logs, and more privacy options :3
ivpn is the only one on the list privacy-guides recommends other than mullvad and proton - obviously their recommendations aren’t law but a good starting point for looking into things yourself
I use self-hosted on a cloud bought by crypto, but it’s primarily because my relatives living in a country with almost all VPN solutions and protocols blocked, so you always need to figure everything out yourself and try something new.
What cloud service would you recommend? Maybe I’m over thinking I but I was looking into offshore VPS. But don’t know if I really want to go through it all.
I wouldn’t advertize anything, but some criterias to filter by: crypto payments available (that’s a good scrutiny even if you don’t pay with it), server location and legal address not in the vault 7 if that matters. The VPN installation itself is pretty easy, you can find guides on the internet or ask AI. I believe, on the official OpenVPN pages there might be a simple guide as well. You just need to use terminal and that’s all.
Im broke as hell so I’m using pia right now, I very much regret it I will probably switch to nym as soon as my subscription runs out.
What’s to regret?
American based VPN providers are a no no.
Generally dodgy marketing (prioritising sensationalism over truth), also owned by an Israeli company. (yikes)
Kape Technologies.
???
Owned by a company with dubious motivations, who owns multiple VPN’s under different branding as what is undeniably an effort to deceive people, and based out of a country famous for selling spyware.
Toxic and potentially risky ownership.
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Host one yourself on a cloud host that accepts cryptocurrency and asks no questions, if you want to do piracy. Otherwise if you’re just trying to get your traffic cloaked for privacy reasons, a digital ocean droplet or a hetzner instance running OpenVPN is plenty.
maybe a dumb question but isn’t a hetzner instance directly connected to one’s identity? I remember when setting up mine, they asked for ID verification. If so then the outgoing IP which is public is linked to my ID and would be a bigger risk of itself. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Yeah, but if you want privacy, it’s a fine idea to prevent public networks and such from examining your traffic patterns. My personal main use case for a self-hosted VPN is for using public networks for private traffic, and I wouldn’t suggest doing hardcore high volume piracy through such a thing.
The idea of using one for piracy is more focused on finding a VPS provider that can accept cryptocurrency and doesn’t require your personal details.
Edit: whoops, realized I got the premises backwards in my earlier comment. Sorry about that.
I care more about the results of privacy audits than I care about moral purity tests and bandwagon boycotts.
I am paying for a service. I’m not tithing to a religion.
I want privacy and a decent planet.
I get what you’re saying as there are many examples of excessive reactions to relatively minor and subjective ethical infringements. But it’s pretty ignorant to say that unwillingness to sponsor right-wing parties is unjustified.
While I generally agree, you know that right wing political beliefs directly correlate to shady corporate practices. I can no longer trust they aren’t pulling a fast one and cutting corners.
So audit them
I’ve worked IT in finance for over twenty years. I’ve been through many, many, many audits.
I don’t rely on just that.
Audits don’t prove they don’t keep logs when a company do a audit on them Mullvad give them access to what they can audit Mullvad can just delete the logs from the servers when the audit is taking place it don’t prove anything.
So you have to trust the vpn provider. And i have a hard time trusting a vpn provider where the person that ownes 50% donates to a party that is pretty close to a Nazi party.
I am paying for a service. I’m not tithing to a religion.
By paying for it you are indirectly funding a party that is pretty close to being a Nazi party.
According to Mullvad’s Wikipedia page “Flamman also alleged he later stated it was sad that the party’s remigration policy was necessary”.
And your phone was built by child slave labor. By using it to type that you’re basically a slaveowner.
Or…
We can think like adults. Paying for the best utility is not a virtue signal. End.
Not the guy above and I tend to agree to your opinion. You can avoid this issue buying second hand / refurbished phones only
I’m doing it since 2016.
i use proton… airvpn looks good but i still haven’t tried it
Proton
Is it the half finished software, the ai, the dodgy social media activity, the crap customer service, or the right wing ownership that attracts you to proton?
I’ve been pretty happy with Windscribe. They are headquartered in Canada, but they have also proven they don’t keep logs. https://cybersecuritynews.com/court-dismisses-criminal-charges-against-vpn-executive-affirms-no-log-policy/
If you’re looking for a good comparison, I found the Techlore comparison table helpful: https://vpn.techlore.tech/
They also threatened to leave Canada if Bill C-22 passes, which I take as a good sign that they’re serious.
