What VPN have you switched to after the Mullvad situation. I have looked at nym and ivpn. But don’t know if they are any good.

  • Rhonda Sandtits@lemmy.sdf.org
    9·
    21 小時前

    I have 5 days left, looks like I’m not gonna renew.
    I find the support of that political party pretty disturbing.

    I think I am just going to use tor for general browsing. Mullvad IP addresses get blocked just as much as tor these days anyway.

  • DoomSayer@lemmy.ml
    3·
    20 小時前

    Had a bad experience with Nym. It’s not compatible with GrapheneOS. It runs, but there’s a data limit that in my experience kept getting artificially hit by the forming and breaking of connections that occurs when switching GOS profiles. Maybe this happens less on stock Android?

    Regardless, I had to keep contacting their support for extensions. In 6 years, I haven’t yet had to contact Mullvad support. It just works!

    I experienced DNS leaks when Nym claimed it was ‘fully’ connected. Mullvad.net could ‘see’ where I was located. That’s not considering that in general the connection with Nym was much slower than Mullvad. Nym offered me an extended free trial, but I haven’t claimed it yet. Reckon they’ll need another couple of years to iron out the obvious issues.

    In summary, Nym felt like a very early prototype much more than a production-ready service.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10·
    1 天前

    It really depends on whether you care or not about State Surveillance.

    If you don’t and only really care about general privacy and things like not getting letters from lawyers demanding money because you torrented something, then any no-logs VPN will do:

    • For starters just having a VPN means it’s not just a case of a lawyer claiming to represent a copyright owner demanding from a local ISP the identification of the user of a specific IP at a specific time (which many countries have made laws to facilitate, so they don’t even need a court order) so now they probably need a court order
    • Then if the VPN is in a different legal jurisdiction said court order needs to be from a court there, not where you are. Even if said lawyer are there and get that court order, they still need the ISP in a different country to give them the information of the user whose IP is in the VPN logs, so that’s a lot more complex.
    • Then if the VPN has no-logs, they can’t even get the user IP address because it’s nowhere to be found. They would need a court order to install what’s basically wiretapping equipment or software in that VPN in order to catch a user whilst they’re actually using that connection to torrent some file or other. No court is going to be issuing a wiretapping order for a VPN provider to catch a non-commercial case of copyright violation.

    If, however, you care about State Surveillance, then merely a no-logs VPN isn’t necessarily safe anymore. You see several countries, such as the US and UK, have special surveillance courts (such as FISA courts in the US) which can issue court orders to facilitate data access for mass surveillance WHICH THE RECIPIENTS CANNOT PUBLICLY ADMIT THEY’RE UNDER. In other words, the wiretapping equipment/software to allow bulk tracking of what users are doing might already be installed at the no-logs VPN (and they cannot tell you about it otherwise they’ll literally end up in jail) so it’s not in fact no-logs because the likes of the NSA is actually logging it all. Any VPN hosted in such legal jurisdictions can be the target of it, any company registered in such legal jurisdictions can be the target of it and it doesn’t matter how honest and pro-privacy the people in those companies are - I vaguely remember the case of a secure e-mail provider in the US (forgot the name now), who tried to fight one such court order and ultimately the only way they found to do so was to close down the service and their company.

    So if you VPN company is for example registered in Gibraltar (which is a British jurisdiction) or the US and they’re still operating, they’re very likely compromised and even if they’re not, they can silently be compromise at any time.

    If you care about avoiding mass surveillance from actual governments, then beyond the usual autocratic nations you’ll want to avoid VPN exit points in and VPN providers based in or registered in at the very least the US, UK and Israel and any of the regions under their jurisdiction (for example Gibraltar and the Channel Islands for Britain, Puerto Rico for the US), probably more broadly all the 5-Eyes nations (so, the first 2 plus Canada, Australia and New Zealand).

    So check were that “wonderful no-logs VPN” company is registered and were is based and avoid those in countries with insane civil society surveillance legislation like the Patriot Act and even avoid exit nodes of other VPN companies in such countries.

  • Tangentism@lemmy.ml
    12·
    1 天前

    I use AirVpn as they allow port forwarding and are reasonably priced. They are no logs and allow payment through non-bank methods

    • chmod755@feddit.org
      3·
      1 天前

      AirVPN is great, I am using it right now. Paid with crypto and signed up with an anonymous email address

  • placebo@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    1 天前

    I switched from Mullvad before this because they thought I was paying 5 EUR each month to solve a captcha on their website. Proton VPN is what I’m using rn.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
      1·
      15 小時前

      How does a selfhosted VPN work? I thought the purpose was to offload the connection so the ISP only saw the company IP…which is this case is an IP toed to your location?

      • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 天前

        You can benefit from both a commercial VPN provider as well as at-home hosted.

        My Asus WRT router, which I flashed with Merlin firmware, has a feature called “VPN Director”, I can connect to 5 different VPN clients at a time and forward my devices connections individually through each one.

        My Asus router also has the option to host a WireGuard Server which i then forward through one of the VPN clients with the VPN director.

        Essentially creating a multi-hop network, the flow goes a little like such;

        Device -> WireGuard Tunnel -> Home Network -> WireGuard Tunnel -> Commercial VPN Server

        The commercial VPN is my endpoint therefore what the internet sees when I browse however I also benefit from my PiHole which handles my DNS queries an blocklists.

  • withheldWitch77@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 天前

    I use self-hosted on a cloud bought by crypto, but it’s primarily because my relatives living in a country with almost all VPN solutions and protocols blocked, so you always need to figure everything out yourself and try something new.

    • zephiriz@lemmy.ml
      2·
      21 小時前

      What cloud service would you recommend? Maybe I’m over thinking I but I was looking into offshore VPS. But don’t know if I really want to go through it all.

      • withheldWitch77@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        43 分鐘前

        I wouldn’t advertize anything, but some criterias to filter by: crypto payments available (that’s a good scrutiny even if you don’t pay with it), server location and legal address not in the vault 7 if that matters. The VPN installation itself is pretty easy, you can find guides on the internet or ask AI. I believe, on the official OpenVPN pages there might be a simple guide as well. You just need to use terminal and that’s all.

  • RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    8·
    2 天前

    I care more about the results of privacy audits than I care about moral purity tests and bandwagon boycotts.

    I am paying for a service. I’m not tithing to a religion.

  • knomie@feddit.org
    2·
    1 天前

    I’ve been using nym for a few month now. It generally works and I’m convinced by the project. However, they are still implementing features and there are often small issues (slow connections, no servers found, needs new permissions on Linux after update, etc.)