It’s so difficult with so many options and all these bullshit “discounts”, coupled with the fact that different VPNs charge different prices based on what country you’re connecting from…
What is the cheapest functional VPN you’ve come across? Bonus points if it supports IPv6.
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Mullvad no longer has port forwarding.
Which is only really needed for hosting a torrent, something most people don’t do. Most VPN users do not even know what torrenting is and most torrent users are leechers so they don’t use it either.
AirVPN has a pretty good reputation AKAIK, and their 2-year plans are cheaper than Mullvad and Proton.
Tailscale.
Agreed. I have a VPS exit node for 4$/month, took an hour to set up, never once come within a mile of hitting my bandwidth cap on it.
The clients run on everything.
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i’d say Mullvad is the better choice, Surfshark if you want better speeds (from my personal experience, also depending on location)
Have a look at https://thatoneprivacysite.xyz/
PIA is $40/yr and if you’re just dodging hollywood lawyers, it is perfect for that. I can easily saturate my 1Gbps connection. It’s a well known service so some companies block their IPs and you’ll get captchas but I think that’s unavoidable.
If you have state actors interested in your activities, keep shopping.
Note that PIA has extremely limited options if you want to be connectable on private trackers
Their port forwarding works for me, but you’re right. It takes some knowledge to make it work.
The real issue is that they only allow port forwarding on certain endpoints (and when I was still using them, none of the endpoints that supported port forwarding were in the US which is a headache)
Been using Air/Eddie for a while, it’s been solid… Not the best interface perhaps, but a wide selection of servers globally…
Most VPN software is free. OpenVPN is FOSS and a popular product.
What are you trying to achieve?
It’s no use. “VPN” means gateway/MITM service, just like “crypto” means digital tulip mania.
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Tor. Or use gnunet’s ‘vpn’ function with friends in other countries.
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A car with a thumbstick, I guess.
