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”.
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Mullvad VPN, its pretty good and is a flat fee per month. It works good with Linux Mint.
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!
Fastvpn by namecheap, it’s shit.
PIA
IVPN
Fully anonymous account, purchased with crypto, has a warrant canary, open source clients, regular server audits to verify no logs, relatively cheap, fast, works on all my devices, VPN bypass for things like steam, killswitch, and a choice of VPN protocols.
It also has multihop, but that’s just a gimmick.
This is what I’m currently using. It’s been great, but they just ended port forwarding. I will not be renewing.
Proton VPN
Same. Since I am a paying Protonmail user I’ve switched to the Proton VPN. It has been fine.
I see that Proton allows payment via PayPal. Is it possible to pay via PayPal anonymously? I don’t use PP much at all so IDK.
I’d be shocked if it were, as I think they zealously honor KYC/AML/OFAC.
Mullvad because they don’t need your name, and you can pay by cash anonymously.
They also regularly have independent security audits
and their servers run everything on RAM meaning the second it loses power all data is lost.Do they still not have port forwarding?
Check out AirVPN if you want port forwarding.
Nope. I’d argue that Mullvad is not for most pirates, unless you’re actually worried about being jailed for your piracy (depends on what country you’re in). If you just want to get the letters from your ISP to stop, there are much cheaper VPNs that can do that.
Mullvad is for actual privacy, which many VPNs don’t really give you. If you gave them an email address and credit card, then it ain’t private, kids!
Adguard VPN
Nord VPN
Nord is the reason I’m under investigation. Wouldn’t recommend
Lol wtf is this comment? You’re under investigation because of NordVPN? Press X to doubt.
Apparently people don’t like Nord but a few years ago several privacy sites advocated for them. I wonder what changed.
their handling of a data breach if i remember correctly
NordVPN pays people to advocate for them.
They had a server breach and didn’t tell anyone until a few years after the fact.
i will never trust a company that had so much investor money on hand to run such a massivr ad campain like Nord did.
It was missleading, agressive and anoying.
The pressure behind that ad campaim kind made me feel like the whole thing was just the biggest honeypot we have ever seen.
Tunnelbear
Express VPN
ProtonVpn
I don’t, I use usenet
Hey OP, maybe switch to your alt if you’re gonna be weird and fake online.
Read their post mate, they said they would be replying with common VPNs and wanted people to up/down vote and comment on each one.
Mullvad because https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/
This is a really good resource, thank you!
