Think you need a VPN? Start here.
Think you need a VPN? Start here.
Not everyone actually needs to use a VPN. This simple guide will help you decide if you need a VPN for your situation.
These fucking things always tip-toe around the issue anyone wants a VPN for: Piracy.
Are you pirating shit? Yes? Use a VPN.
and you don't live in a third world country 🙃
Hooray for third world freedom. I've been raw-dogging torrent for years.
Are you pirating shit? No? Guess what, use a VPN!
I mean, legit true though. A lot of ISPs are selling your data now too.
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.
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.
The latest captchas and cloudflare-turnstile approve you because the google-cloud flare networks have already determined who you are as an individual and just wave you through.
Tor gets the checks because they don’t know who you are and are seeing you for the first time. Getting a captcha means your privacy strategy is working.
I've had the same experience with van's requiring a captcha for every second website I visit.
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.
Consider posting the text of the article in the comment section if you feel so strongly about this.
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.
I love the ultra paranoid path Proton offers. It reminds me.of GoldenEye.
You -> VPN Server 1 -> VPN Server 2 -> TOR -> endpoint.
"Good luck, I'm behind 7 proxies!"
Tailscale is the best VPN that exists rn.
Not for piracy.
Why did you not include DPI spoofing?
What?
I guess it refers to things like GoodbyeDPI. A lot of people use it to watch Youtube after it got "slowed" rather than using a VPN.
Edit: also realized that meant obfuscation protocols like VLESS because VPN protocols are stupid easy to block.
Getting around deep packet inspection.
vyper has plans fo $3/mo
Windscribe $2/mo. Also supports Wireguard. I don't even use their dumbass client, I just export a profile for Wireguard - which is quite a bit faster than OpenVPN
How about this one? "If you want to access shared files and services at home without exposing them to the internet you should use a VPN".