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So what ARE the current "good" VPN services? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago by NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've used proton for a year or two now and it is fine. Great for use on my phone when I want to use public/airport wifi and it sort of kind of works with gluetun (the rotating port is annoying but it still is a forwarded port).

But I've increasingly been annoyed with Proton as a company and am looking to migrate my email/domain to fastmail in the very near future. I COULD continue to just pay for the vpn (60 USD a year is pretty reasonable) but also feel like this is a good opportunity to "shop around"

Checked the wiki and other FAQs (which all basically crib from said wiki) and they all basically boil down to proton or mullivad... except that mullivad apparently stopped allowing port forwarding which is a bit of an issue for any torrents and the like.

So are there any other good options?

Thanks

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[-] quack@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago

Good choice for privacy, not so much for piracy. They removed their port forwarding feature a while ago.

[-] TauZero@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

IMHO if you don't have a globally-reachable address or forwarded port, you are not really a participant of the internet, you are just a receptacle xD

One service I never see mentioned is OVPN. They have a 1-to-1 feature parity with mullvad and were an easy drop-in replacement when mullvad closed their ports:

wireguard
port forwarding
no usernames/emails/registration, only account numbers
crypto payments/cash in the mail
same price as mullvad
multiple device keys
multihop
no bandwidth limits
setup guides
status dashboard

I used mullvad for years, sad to see them go, and all my scripts basically worked without any change other than the server addresses/public keys. Only downside is they don't have as many users so not as many servers. I wish more people would join up so I get more IPs to choose from :D

[-] yardratianSoma@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Damn, if this is all true, I'll switch once my credits run out with mullvad. If I don't like it, I can always switch back, but port forwarding is more than just something to help with seeding, tad shame mullvad pulled the plug on it.

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