Using torguard. Works well
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I really like ProtonVPN with the unlimited plan. Comes with their premium email, drive, and password manager for $8-12 a month (depending on what plan length you buy)
Safing.io portmaster with SPN. It's better than any of the other recommendations so far.
I didn't see anything about not keeping logs (please correct me if I just missed it). Also, they don't have any built-in DNS protection, and it's expensive at $8.34usd/month.
It's an interesting idea to stratify your VPN and force individual apps to bind to their own tunnels, but seems like a lot of extra setup for little payoff, and if you can't be certain they're not keeping logs, there's little benefit to having multiple VPN connections vs one.
Please, feel free to correct me if I've misunderstood something.
They do have built in DNS protection, it's just not DNS servers controlled by them. You can pick presets from AdGuard, Cloudflare, etc. Or, use your own.
Regarding logging, I'm not sure I understand entirely how it's relevant to a service such as SPN. Have you used Tor and wondered if the nodes are logging? SPN is also an onion router. So, the exit node will not know your origin, even if they are logging. Of course, we could go down rabbit holes about speculative traffic correlation and/or timing attacks, but that's a separate discussion. A large portion of the SPN network is also community operated nodes.
SPN nodes can also be run by anyone without needing a large investment of staked cryptocurrency, unlike another onion router Lokinet. This lowers the barrier to entry for a more diverse number of community contributed nodes to SPN.
These aren't necessarily multiple VPN connections. Instead, every network request is sprayed across the SPN network based upon your desired number of hops and other settings. This means one app might see you as being in Iceland while another in Australia, etc. It bounces every connection around the network. If someone were trying to track you, it'd make it just a little more difficult than a static location connection with a traditional VPN.
Hope this helps and you give it a try.
How is network speed? Even with a multihop VPN, each hop degrades the speed. If it's operating like the Tor network, I would expect that it would experience the same kind of speed degradation.
And speaking of multihop, I wonder what extra benefit you'd get from a service like SPN and a VPN that offers multihop...?
Not trying to piss on your suggestion, just trying to scrutinize the benefits.
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I used the free version of Proton for a while, but when I decided to start paying I went with Surfshark. They were the best deal at the time and their client works well with the Windows, Android and Linux devices I have used it on. I have encountered some annoying "prove you are human" prompts when using Google Search so I mostly use DuckDuckGo.
I have encountered some annoying “prove you are human” prompts when using Google Search so I mostly use DuckDuckGo.
same. searx.be anohter good one
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Proton and Mullvad have the best privacy record, but I want to suggest a different tool. VPNs are really only useful for tunneling and adding an extra layer of anonymity, there's no total assurance they won't rat on you or get breached.
Real-Debrid is a way to torrent without risking ISP shutting down. Other debrid services exist, I just prefer real-debrid. The debrid service does the illegal part and you download over high speed. It's also more available since you can think of it like a very large scale seedbox. There's also implementation for most media center apps.
I've never heard of this before, and it sounds interesting after a cursory search online. Why the downvotes?
People get weird about VPNs. I think it's the way that they're marketed as security solution which is not really true these days.