I don’t think you can go wrong with NordVPN, Proton or Mullvad. I find Nord and Proton have better speeds.
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VPN.ac
Very happy for quite a few years now. Before that rotated through quite a few.
Reasons=
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Romanian court over ruled EU's 6 month data retention policy.
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6 wireguard connections.
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~€46 per year.
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Small team of good dudes. I can't stand the support vibe from big companies.
I use my home router as a VPN server.
I use NordVPN, audited no-logs and they have static IPs to buy
I'm using Safeshell because it's highly secure and has excellent stability.
I self host, it's way more convenient (opinion) and I don't really care about anonymity. Also less expensive.
I host my own OpenVpn server in 2 different countries
Do you use a VPS for this? If not, how do you do it?
No VPS, all running on my home servers.
I have one server at home in country where I reside in, so if I want secure tunnel when for example on public wifi, I just connect to my home in this country
And second one is in my home country where my relative lets me keep my second low power server at their home, which I use if I need to bypass geoblocked content of my current country
Selfhosted WG
a pi with wireguard in multiple friends houses in different countries
I host my own VPN on a VPS. This way I am sure all the logging is truly disabled.
Airvpn with 3 year plan, windscribe with discount link you can find on reddit or their newsletter discounts are both good value
Hmm, I use expressvpn but don’t see anyone here mentioning it. Is there something I should know about them?
I was thinking the same.
It might be a little pricey compared to the rest? It works very well for my use case and I've never been bottlenecked by the VPN which is nice.
Honestly, if you're happy with the service surfshark had been providing, why roll the dice and switch? Stick with what's making you happy.
PIA
Reason = Transmission
I am collecting Linux.iso :)
None, get a $5 vps and setup openvpn
Windscribe
What do people think of Mozilla VPN? That's what I use currently.
I have several VPSes around the world each with OpenVPN.