• @LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch
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    7210 months ago

    Very telling that big sites are only promoting VPN services that heavily advertise… i.e. - give commissions on signups.

    The list of providers they “tested” aren’t even that complete, they didn’t even bother to pretend to check out ones that won’t give a kickback for promotion.

    They don’t give specific recommendations, but the EFF has a good list of things to look for in a provider. https://ssd.eff.org/module/choosing-vpn-thats-right-you

    • brcl
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      110 months ago

      I find I’m getting high ping with proton and relatively slow speeds. Does it get better with proton unlimited?

        • brcl
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          110 months ago

          I feel the price is high for a VPN and ad block service. I don’t think I’d use any of their other systems. Do you use calendar, mail, etc from them?

    • ayaya
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      410 months ago

      Mullvad no longer supports port forwarding, making it completely useless for torrenting which is my main use case.

      • @LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch
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        610 months ago

        I find this interesting because I use Mozilla VPN, which is just rebranded Mullvad, and qBittorrent works just fine on it.

        • @redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          10 months ago

          You can torrent without portforwarding. The only issue is on rare Linux isos. You potentially will have trouble discovering new peers. At least one person will need portforwarding.

        • @Lord_Boffum@lemmy.world
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          It’s more that effective seeding is very hard without a forwarded port. If you only leech, you’ll be fine. But that’s not how the system is envisioned.

          • TurtlePower
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            210 months ago

            What about with something like Soulseek? I’m just getting into using it and still have no idea how to optimize using it, and doing so safely.

            • @Lord_Boffum@lemmy.world
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              110 months ago

              I linked a Docker Container elsewhere in this topic that works with Proton’s implementation of port forwarding. Proton’s price is the same as Mullvad too. That would be my recommendation.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    610 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The once-niche way to protect your online activity took off, in part, due to massive marketing budgets and influencer collaborations convincing consumers that a VPN’s functionality or privacy features could solve all their security woes.

    In other words, secure VPNs work by masking your IP address and the identity of your computer or mobile device on the network and creating an encrypted “tunnel” that prevents your internet service provider (ISP) from accessing data about your browsing history.

    “If you’re just worried about somebody sitting there passively and looking at your data then a VPN is great,” Jed Crandall, an associate professor at Arizona State University, told Engadget.

    If you travel a lot and rely on public WiFi or hotspots, are looking to browse outside of your home country or want to keep your traffic hidden from your ISP, then investing in a VPN will be useful.

    We looked at price, usage limits, effects on internet speed, possible use cases, ease of use, general functionality and additional “extra” VPN features like multihop.

    That said, it works on a bunch of devices from smart TVs to game consoles, unlike some other services that lack support beyond the usual suspects like smartphones and laptops.


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  • @smolyeet@lemmy.world
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    110 months ago

    I will have to suggest ovpn. Minus it being slightly more difficult to search issues because it’s too similar to openvpn , I’ve been super happy with it for my use case. I ended up choosing them over mullvad because of the port forwarding issue.