What VPN do you use and why?
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".
Mullvad because https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/
43So.... at the risk of humiliating myself,
I've never once used a VPN in my entire life.I pirated games, movies, shows, music, software... and the worst thing that happened to me was getting a letter from Telus once or twice saying "Hey. Don't do that."
That was 5 years ago
I know it's bad practice. But is a VPN 100% necessary? Even a free one?
24Proton because I have their Unlimited plan.
16ProtonVpn
15AirVPN, limited on details for signing up, can pay in crypto and easy port forwarding.
Good config generator as well
14You should add an option for Mullvad.
9Proton VPN since it's cheaper than ExpressVPN but apparently faster than other paid VPN options, while also having port forwarding to improve torrent connectivity.
8Currently testing Windscribe because they had good offer for a yearly subscription and some interesting features like ad block (mostly useful for mobile). Their privacy level is sufficient for what I'm doing currently, but if I ever need I'll just Mullvad.
8I use PIA because it was the cheapest on their 3.3 year plan, and it has a good node geographically close to me with port forwarding. I only use it for torrenting, so I don't care if it's a CIA Honeypot or whatever.
8Mulllvad VPN on my Hardened Void Linux and GrapheneOS mainly to hide my real IP address plus I use NextDNS paid version too.
7I 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.
7AirVPN - privacy respecting (although their attitude towards audits is a bit off putting). They also had the best port forwarding offer at the time Mullvad announced it was ending its support.
7I 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.
4I use Nord VPN. Might switch to Proton when my sub is done.
4hide.me for UPnP port forwarding support (TLDR you can have access to more peers)
3Mullvad VPN, its pretty good and is a flat fee per month. It works good with Linux Mint.
3Fastvpn by namecheap, it's shit.
2PIA
2Expressvpn. Everything is stored on RAM
2I should probably start using a VPN. I’ve got hundreds of those letters from my ISO but they don’t seem to do anything about it, but probably better safe than sorry. I’m a noob here, what’s the best way to set up a VPN but only put transmissions data through it and not the rest of the computer? I’m on a Mac. Thank you!
2Be n sailing the high seas for 15++ years, never once used a VPN.
1I've been using AzireVPN for several years. Mostly because they have ipv6 and externally accessible IPv4. They also accept cryptocurrency and this is crucial.
1I don't use VPN
-2Permanently Deleted
-3NordVPN. 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!
-4Tunnelbear
-7Adguard VPN
-8Free tier VPN
-8