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[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you're looking for a VPN, check out Mullvad.

It's just €5 / $5.25 / £4.15 a month. They haven't changed that price since launching in 2009. So they've also been around a while. Does everything you need a VPN to do. And they're based in Sweden, which seems to have some good privacy rules. They also don't keep logs.

[–] UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No port forward though (I understand why but it is still annoying)

[–] MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What would be the benefit of port forwarding?

Is this something you could do on your router on your side, making it so it doesn't matter if they dont do it?

[–] heyixen815@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Torrenting, can reach more peers. Especially helpful for older, less popular torrents.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do new torrents bypass this somehow, or is it just by sheer volume and popularity ?

[–] heyixen815@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

The latter. Seedboxes are becoming more popular these days, which might be good for future torrent preservation. But if you have a niche or old school taste, you are gonna have a hard time without port forwarding.

[–] UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Sadly doing it on the router would not be enough. Not a problem if you are browsing of course. But if you host, needs to listen on a specific port or whatever it gets annoying. And obviously piracy.

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Tailscale is the best VPN that exists rn.

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

These fucking things always tip-toe around the issue anyone wants a VPN for: Piracy.

Are you pirating shit? Yes? Use a VPN.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Are you pirating shit? Yes? Use a VPN.

I pirate and seed shit from Mexico no issues without VPN... My only headache is CGNAT.

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sadly the country has a lot of other shit to worry about, I don't expect that to change in the short or long time lol.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

You'd be surprised how terrible politician priorities are

[–] UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

CGNAT

I am so sorry. How do you usually circumvent that bs ?

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Depending on your ISP sometimes you can just call them, ask to opt out of cg-nat and they will do it for free.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

For seeding? Out of luck as I don't have a VPS currently, I used one to open my ports with some hacky ways using Wireguard and IPtables stuff, if there is a better way I would like to know lol.

Now I just constantly seed in hopes that people with the ports opened can access my stuff.

For accessing my files, Zerotier and Tailscale have been a godsend.

I also happen to have IPv6 support and I can access some exposed services through it without too much hassle, Plex and Bitwarden are two big examples.

[–] UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Just so you know Proton VPN has port forwarding if you can afford them.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are you pirating shit? No? Guess what, use a VPN!

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I mean, legit true though. A lot of ISPs are selling your data now too.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I like how the article boils down to, "Except for some isolated use cases, Tor is far superior to a VPN in both cost and safety," and a lot of the comments boil down to "YEAH VPNS ARE GREAT GET A VPN."

It is okay to read the article before writing a comment, guys. In some circles, it's even encouraged, because you might learn something.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't just use Tor, use VPN on top of it.

If you use tor frequently, you'd eventually get a bad "roll of dice" on the nodes and get 3 government run nodes. Its not a matter of "if" but "when", roll the dice enough times, and the holes in the "swiss cheese" eventually line up.

If you are using Tor, also use a VPN along with it. It might make the traffic a little slower, but its worth it in case you get 3 NSA nodes.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Doesn't it mean there's only 1 node NSA has to attack - your VPN?

Kinda renders Tor over it pointless.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Better than 0 nodes, and this is not counting that they already attacked 3.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 days ago

Consider posting the text of the article in the comment section if you feel so strongly about this.

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Except many services are very aggressive to Tor exit nodes, namely Google and Cloudflare. Everytime I just met with CAPTCHA after CAPTCHAs, and eventually I gave up on the site.

Yeah, I should cut ties with Google but cutting YouTube on NewPipe is hard. I'm on Proton and watching YouTube is already hard.

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I've had the same experience with vpn's requiring a captcha for every second website I visit.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love the ultra paranoid path Proton offers. It reminds me.of GoldenEye.

You -> VPN Server 1 -> VPN Server 2 -> TOR -> endpoint.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 22 points 1 week ago

"Good luck, I'm behind 7 proxies!"

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