Privacy guides are a great resource for finding services
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Xanis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Since this post is going to be around for a couple days anyone with more knowledge than myself wanna chime in on the actual best VPNs your average individual could look into accessing?
MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
breakingcups@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Mullvad is an amazing choice.
barcaxavi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ve already read like 10 of these before, so I’m kind of confident saying that most people would recommend Mullvad as the best and most secure/private, and some of them would also add ProtonVPN. I’m using Proton here and there, no issues, would recommend.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 2 days ago
Proton. They’re a great company, and offer more services than just a VPN.
They’re also the only for profit (at the time) company I’ve ever seen say, “Hey, our cost of running the services has dropped, so we’re lowering prices.”
I’ve cool feature they offer is their secure core servers. Basically, your traffic bounces to a server in a neutral country (Switzerland for instance), then back to a US server so it looks like your traffic is from the US on the website’s end.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They’re also the only for profit (at the time) company I’ve ever seen say, “Hey, our cost of running the services has dropped, so we’re lowering our prices.”
It’s called competition!
Easy to forget that, everyone once in awhile, anticompetitive monopolism, collusion, or ad propaganda don’t get in the way…
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
nothing free will ever be best, because you are the product
best heavily depends on usecase, and not all usecases are covered by the “best choices”
for piracy, you need vpns that dont keep logs, and allow port fowarding(a feature not all vpns support)
for privacy from governments, especially western ones, people want vpns hosted in countries outside of the five/nine/fourteen eyes alliance
for example, a common VPN choice that covers both usecases is Proton VPN, as i believe its swiss hosted, does not keep logs and has a form of port fowarding. someone using a vpn for privacy might not care about the use for piracy or vice versa, so they may spend time looking for vpns that give more value for their usecase.