What VPN do you use and why?

If you are a pirate VPN is an essential tool. I am trying to ascertain the popularity of various VPNs in piracy community. In this excerise, I will list several Popular VPNs in the comment if you use one of them just upvote that comment and reply the reason. If you don’t find your VPN listed add a comment with just their name. Reply the reason to it. This make it easier to understand the real life user cases.

P.S: I am only looking for paid VPNs please don’t mention “free vpn”.

wildcardology,

Be n sailing the high seas for 15++ years, never once used a VPN.

eya,
@eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I use Mullvad because I don’t need port forwarding. If you are using a VPN specifically for piracy I would use a seedbox, cheap ones aren’t that much more expensive.

Smokeydope,
@Smokeydope@lemmy.world avatar

Mullvad VPN, its pretty good and is a flat fee per month. It works good with Linux Mint.

Specal,

I hope my own because why pay for a VPN service when I already rent a VPS

m00b0mph,

How do you pay the VPS Provider? The Cops can simply go to the VPS Provider and ask what Bank account or paypal is linked to the Account who runs the Server with the IP address they tracked. And what if the VPS Provider is logging your traffic? They can Monitor anything that leaves your VPS (their network) because a VPS is just a Virtual Machine like KVM thats why its called VPS = VIRTUAL Private Server. OPSEC my friend… I think you are safer if you just use Mullvad and pay with XMR and only access the mullvad site from Tor. (I know i am paranoid xD)

Specal,

With my credit card, I’m not worried about the police coming after me. Pirating is a civil issue not a criminal issue.

But how do you think they are running their VPNs? As we have seen from the past, Paid VPNs can track what you do any way. Just make sure you’re using HTTPS and you have setup your OS to encrypt your data and you’re fine. No one’s going through the effort to catch youre suspected of doing something serious enough.

DrZoidbergYes,

NordVPN. I use it to access iPlayer and a couple of torrent sites my ISP blocks. It’s works fine. I chose Nord due to the brilliant adverts by the Internet Historian. The Internet Historian’s adverts are up there with John Green’s life assurance ads. Just brilliant!

kerrypacker,

Fastvpn by namecheap, it’s shit.

SirStumps,
@SirStumps@lemmy.world avatar

I use Nord VPN. Might switch to Proton when my sub is done.

chemicalwonka,
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Mulllvad VPN on my Hardened Void Linux and GrapheneOS mainly to hide my real IP address plus I use NextDNS paid version too.

TonyStarkRevant,

I don’t use VPN

Zedstrian,

Proton VPN since it’s cheaper than ExpressVPN but apparently faster than other paid VPN options, while also having port forwarding to improve torrent connectivity.

Jezebelley,

I use Google’s VPN since it’s a part of my Google One subscription.

Compactor9679,

Hahahahah

Jezebelley,

Oh crap I forgot. “Google bad.”

netchami,

I use IVPN and I’m very happy with them. They allow you to make an account without giving out your Email address, you just get a random-generated Account ID (Mullvad does the same btw). They also allow you to pay with Monero, an anonymous crypto currency. I used Mullvad before, Proton VPN and AirVPN are great options as well.

StickBugged,

IVPN Looks really good, does it have port forwarding so you can torrent with it?

netchami,

They recently removed it, I recommend AirVPN if you need port forwarding.

ColeSloth,

I’ve been using cyberghost and it seems easy and works well. Am I screwing up?

netchami,

Am I screwing up?

Yes.

ColeSloth,

My two years I bought renews in like 5 days. Guess I’ll cancel and switch.

netchami,

Check this out: www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/. It will help you make a good decision. Also, my personal recommendation: AirVPN.

storm,

Torguard.net

storm,

Torguard has port forwarding which is essential if you belong to private trackers. Wireguard connection is very fast and stable. Plenty of 50% off coupons that are easy to find via Google. This summer, they had a 70% off coupon. I opened a ticket and they quickly applied the coupon to my existing account.

Ibaudia,
@Ibaudia@lemmy.world avatar

Torguard is the best! $30 per year with my current plan and it’s reliable enough to play games.

p5f20w18k,
@p5f20w18k@lemmy.world avatar

AirVPN, limited on details for signing up, can pay in crypto and easy port forwarding.

Good config generator as well

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