Would be moving from Mullvad, would appreciate opinions on the current landscape of VPN’s from those who keep a better eye out. TIA.
I would use Mullvad
Alright, I guess I’ll stay where I am for now. My main concerns were streaming and privacy.
What’s going on with mullvad ? So many recommendations, isn’t it just another provider with shady background ?
No account creation, you can pay in bitcoin or mail them cash in an envelope if you want, and you can establish the VPN connection using standard free and open source software
Oh ok thanks
I was going to recommend the one your moving from. Ha
What are your requirements?
Same. Mullvad #1.
Unless you need port forwarding, then Proton for those activities.
Haha Open to staying, just looking since it’s time to check the landscape out if anything’s changed. My friend has Proton VPN, but so many options these days.
Well some less than impressive news about the Proton CEO came out pretty recently. I’m a current user and thinking hard about switching to something else.
Lemme go find a link. Here we go, I went down this thread last night:
Proton is and always was sketchy.
A company claiming “Swiss privacy laws” as their base while de facto operating out of the US is highly problematic. Switzerland has the weakest privacy laws of all European countries, has laws in place for extensive intelligence agency placement within their tech companies and has a history of intelligence agency overreach. The USA can easily make companies and executives do what they want due to the whole Homeland security act clusterfuck.
I wouldn’t touch then with a ten foot pole if data privacy was ones goal.
Bingo. When I heard about it, figured I would rather ask here.
But what is wrong with Mullvad that your leaving it?
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/
A comparison from a group who matches my style of crazy.
Nothing, more VPN’s feel like they change fast anymore. Mainly I’m getting old lol, gives the guttural feeling of constantly trying to keep up 🤣.
Mullvad seems to be consistently good. I’ve been on it for +5 years. Before I used PIA but they got sold to a sketchy company.
MullvadVPN.
AirVPN is great and has port forwarding.
I still think Mulvad is the best that there is at the moment. There’s Proton, which shouldn’t be too bad. I wouldn’t trust anything else, to be honest.
Edit: Depending on your requirements and technical know-how, then perhaps buying a private VPS and running tail scale could also be an option.
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I highly suggest Windscribe. They’re independent, tested safe, good prices, and good speeds. Been a paying customer for years and had few issues
I like airvpn. Ran 24/7 for over a year without issue.
How are the speeds?
I can only tell by how my torrents run, I’d say pretty good but not great. That could also be because I’m running 1,600 torrents
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I was recommended Proton a couple years ago (pre-Lemmy) by some reddit tech/piracy forum. I’ve continued to subscribe it without scrutiny or vigilance. and uhh it’s fine? works great? it’s a VPN. i can download star trek without prison time. I never game on it though
Proton VPN
Proton is sucking trumps chode these days
MullvadVPN, it doesn’t share info and you give it the least amount possible
I really love IVPN but I feel it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
I also cache the hell out of DNS myself (along with crazy strict blocking) which makes it much snappier than just going the default way.
You can squeeze out more performance out of their IPv6 (which is strange since the endpoints themselves don’t support IPv6), IPv4 seems a bit slower.
