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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".

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[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 64 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Mullvad because they don't need your name, and you can pay by cash anonymously.

[–] Siddhartha-Aurelius@kbin.social 29 points 8 months ago

They also regularly have independent security audits
and their servers run everything on RAM meaning the second it loses power all data is lost.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Do they still not have port forwarding?

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nope. I'd argue that Mullvad is not for most pirates, unless you're actually worried about being jailed for your piracy (depends on what country you're in). If you just want to get the letters from your ISP to stop, there are much cheaper VPNs that can do that.

Mullvad is for actual privacy, which many VPNs don't really give you. If you gave them an email address and credit card, then it ain't private, kids!

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Check out AirVPN if you want port forwarding.