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".

    • Staple_Diet@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      I used Mullvad, found them great for everything and would be my only VPN if they were big enough to facilitate streaming via other countries. Due to smaller number of servers it isn't possible to use a lot of streaming services with them...I found this out when o/s and needing to VPN into my home country to access my geo-locked streaming service.

  • ChrisLicht@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    PIA, just because I’m lazy and it’s been fine for like a decade. If there is something better, happy to hear about it.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      PIA was sold to Kape Technologies a few years back and they have somewhat questionable history and that made me switch to Mullvad. Not because I thought it's better VPN per-se, but because I wanted away from PIA and Mullvad seemed popular.

      The issue is who he sold it to -- the notorious creator of some pernicious data-huffing ad-ware, Crossrider. The UK-based company was cofounded by an ex-Israeli surveillance agent and a billionaire previously convicted of insider trading who was later named in the Panama Papers. It produced software which previously allowed third-party developers to hijack users' browsers via malware injection, redirect traffic to advertisers and slurp up private data.

      Source

  • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]
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    1 year ago

    I 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.

  • aPirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Currently proton its decent though I'm thinking of moving to mullvad even though they've removed portforwarding.

    • CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I've used both and much prefer Proton for sailing the seas. Connecting through France (highest speed + p2p) with port forwarding is the best torrent speed I've had on a VPN. The only slight annoyance is it switching the forwarded port every time it reconnects, but I run it 24/7 anyway.

      Just skip the "official" client and run it through gluetun. It's a much better experience.

  • Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Currently 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.

  • suoko@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    Is it just me that using a VPN on my android, everything becomes much faster ? Apps load faster, the internet is faster, etc. Is it because it cuts out some s****y connection ?

    • aPirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      It was bought up by Kape recently its not recommended anymore. It would be good to switch to mullvad they are quite trusted so far. Video from mental outlaw. https://piped.video/watch?v=hfjCB_oPIuo

  • Katlah@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I 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.