Mullvad is often considered the gold standard of VPNs when it comes to privacy. It’s nice that they accept crypto and cash, and that they don’t tie the account to anything except an account number. That’s a layer of privacy that really goes above and beyond what a lot of other companies offer, beyond anything to do with the actual product
I’ve been using it for a year or two without complaint. Only problem I’ve heard people talk about is lack of port forwarding for torrents. I still torrent on it without much issue though.
What is your threat model exactly? What are you trying to protect against? Commercial VPNs have an extremely narriw spectrum of threats that they protect against, and most customers don’t realize this
I don’t want adult sites to know anything about my real identity or location. I don’t want social network sites to know about my kinks or to be able to correlate my IP data with that of other people who may be on the same network. I don’t want online stores to know my ID on social network sites, or vice versa.
I do have separate browser profiles for each of my online identities, but they could still be tied together if I would use them from the same IP, so they each get a different VPN connection.
I have proton unlimited subscription that comes to about €10 per month (though you can often get temporary better deals for the first year or so), and that includes proton mail as well, which was my main reason for getting it. Just the VPN should be a bit cheaper.
Any negatives you can think of?
Not many. Speeds are good, and the IPs seem to have a better reputation than on Private Internet Access, for example: no captchas on google.com.
One recent change I was rather annoyed by is that they restricted the number of servers that are available with a manual wireguard configuration file to 10 per country, when hundreds are available through the app or browser extension.
I’ve had a few connectivity issues with the firefox browser extension as well, but nothing as of late.
Like Mullvad, or would you recommend anyone else?
i am sorry, i don’t really follow market in this area, so i have no idea.
Mullvad is often considered the gold standard of VPNs when it comes to privacy. It’s nice that they accept crypto and cash, and that they don’t tie the account to anything except an account number. That’s a layer of privacy that really goes above and beyond what a lot of other companies offer, beyond anything to do with the actual product
$5 a month isn’t bad, I’ll give it a shot.
I’ve been using it for a year or two without complaint. Only problem I’ve heard people talk about is lack of port forwarding for torrents. I still torrent on it without much issue though.
Ahh… yeah, sadly that’s most people’s reason for a VPN. 🫣
What is your threat model exactly? What are you trying to protect against? Commercial VPNs have an extremely narriw spectrum of threats that they protect against, and most customers don’t realize this
For me it’s about separating online identities.
I don’t want adult sites to know anything about my real identity or location. I don’t want social network sites to know about my kinks or to be able to correlate my IP data with that of other people who may be on the same network. I don’t want online stores to know my ID on social network sites, or vice versa.
I do have separate browser profiles for each of my online identities, but they could still be tied together if I would use them from the same IP, so they each get a different VPN connection.
Using ProtonVPN here, because it gives me de-googled, private e-mail too.
I was looking at Proton, what are you paying monthly? Any negatives you can think of?
I have proton unlimited subscription that comes to about €10 per month (though you can often get temporary better deals for the first year or so), and that includes proton mail as well, which was my main reason for getting it. Just the VPN should be a bit cheaper.
Not many. Speeds are good, and the IPs seem to have a better reputation than on Private Internet Access, for example: no captchas on google.com.
One recent change I was rather annoyed by is that they restricted the number of servers that are available with a manual wireguard configuration file to 10 per country, when hundreds are available through the app or browser extension.
I’ve had a few connectivity issues with the firefox browser extension as well, but nothing as of late.