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NGC2346@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Molecular0079@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think there was some bad vibes when they got bought by a less than reputable company a while back. I know a lot of people, myself included switched to Mullvad. I am on Proton now though for the port forwarding.

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  • MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What is the benefit of port forwarding?

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    • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The most common use case is probably bittorrent. Without port forwarding, you won’t be connectable. But anything where someone might need to connect to your local machine from the internet, like hosting game servers or other self-hosting.

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      • prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I recently switched to Mullvad and have had no issues torrenting

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• Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  PIA was good until they got bought out. That’s when my friend and I switched our VPNs (me to proton, him to express).

  A shady parent company isn’t what you want in a VPN.

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  • doublejay1999@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    … um……Express is also owned by Kape

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    • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It wasn’t at the time he switched … I think he looked at some other options after that, but might have just stayed.

      For whatever reason he wasn’t getting the performance he wanted from Proton.

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  • HeckGazer@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    PIA got bought out switched to express

    Oh no

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  • makingrain@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On September 13, 2021, it was reported that ExpressVPN had been acquired by Kape Technologies, an LSE-listed digital privacy and security company

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  • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m on Express VPN only because they apparently specialise in avoiding geoblocks and VPN detection for overseas TV sites etc. (Plus three months free for being a TWiT.) So far it’s true for BBC iPlayer, RTe Player and UK Channel 4. For this purpose I’m not overly worried about how log-resistant they are, but interesting to keep up with the score here.

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    • lemmyingly@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wonder how they manage to bypass the geo-location blocks? I would if they frequently rotate their IP Addresses with fresh ones.

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      • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Possibly, or they have multiple entry points on residential ISP blocks and don’t have too many people NAT’d per IP so it looks legit. That would explain the higher costs.

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