I do have experience in these areas (torrenting for a long time though not at all in the past several years, read TorrentFreak over the years, followed Snowden, etc.), but have never personally bought access to a VPN, even though I feel like I **should ** have been using one since like 2008.

I familiar with most terms and concepts, I know to look for non-FVEY/SSEUR jurisdictions only, strict no-log, network killswitch, pay with cash/crypto, DNS leak protection as a bonus, etc.

I am wondering which service you all have decided to go with.

  • post_trains [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Mullvad is a bunch of cool Swedish weirdos who are generally explicit about the political nature of their business. No logging, no accounts tied to anything but a random number, cash/crypto payments, and a network killswitch in their app if you choose to use that.

    They’re also an early supporter of WireGuard and have it deployed extensively.

    Downside: They’re in a 14 Eyes jurisdiction. I don’t really care about this for my purposes. A VPN - no matter how well-chosen - is relatively weak protection and shouldn’t be construed as an effective privacy solution on its own.

    • standardissue [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Just got an email about Mozilla's new VPN that uses Mullvad's servers but I'm not sure why I shouldn't just use Mullvad directly. At least buying from Mullvad means nothing is tied to my Firefox account

      • post_trains [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Without knowing more about it, I can't really say. It lacks some features I'd like to see, and I personally wouldn't want to put all my eggs in one proverbial basket. But good on them for picking a well-regarded partner and an excellent newish technology.