I have been out of the piracy game since a little before mullvad lost port-forwarding; I know these things are ever changing, and to my understanding ivpn is a good bet at this moment in time.
I was wondering what everyone else has been using. As well as if anyone has tried the gui client for ivpn either built from source or the AUR build(I do use arch btw).
I am open to any vpn client that has a good reputation in the community, and build-able from a repository; A gui is preferred but not necessary, and absolutely NO account creation (Except for generic account numbers of course).
Thanks in advance for anyone who takes the time to answer.
Some of the things I have written down, are mostly old so if anything is missing or needs correction, please let me know:
They have shady origins, no one knows who they are or where they came from, but they did it with enough funds to quickly expand a large worldwide network of servers and an endless aggressive advertising campaign everywhere.
Misleading advertising, from saying they are the best in the world to adding countdowns to get an offer that restarts when clearing cookies.
They were hacked and tried to hide it for a very, very long time.
Their app on mac pings google every 20 seconds. The android app is riddled with trackers. They use a myriad of integrated google services.
They do not offer open source or audited apps.
If you cancel the auto-renewal of the service, you lose many secondary services and they charge you weeks before the end of the subscription.
In short, they are the kind of company that screams that they don’t deserve anyone’s trust, and that’s a big problem for a VPN. I suggest mullvad, they have a long history of good practices, are privacy activists and are backed by companies like mozilla.
Also besides them being extremely shady; I refuse to use any VPN that makes me create an account past a generic account number. If you don’t log my data, why do you need me to sign up?
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Some of the things I have written down, are mostly old so if anything is missing or needs correction, please let me know:
They have shady origins, no one knows who they are or where they came from, but they did it with enough funds to quickly expand a large worldwide network of servers and an endless aggressive advertising campaign everywhere.
Misleading advertising, from saying they are the best in the world to adding countdowns to get an offer that restarts when clearing cookies.
They were hacked and tried to hide it for a very, very long time.
Their app on mac pings google every 20 seconds. The android app is riddled with trackers. They use a myriad of integrated google services.
They do not offer open source or audited apps.
If you cancel the auto-renewal of the service, you lose many secondary services and they charge you weeks before the end of the subscription.
In short, they are the kind of company that screams that they don’t deserve anyone’s trust, and that’s a big problem for a VPN. I suggest mullvad, they have a long history of good practices, are privacy activists and are backed by companies like mozilla.
Thank you so much; your response was very helpful. I guess I’m canceling my Nord sub now…
Also besides them being extremely shady; I refuse to use any VPN that makes me create an account past a generic account number. If you don’t log my data, why do you need me to sign up?
Mullvad even accepts an envelope of cash as payment. It’s the only reputable VPN
ProtonVPN is quite reputable TBF.
Started off at CERN if I have my info correct (the guys behind the word wide web for example, researchers) with Proton mail.