• NateNate60@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The VPNs you characterise as “shitty” aren’t necessarily a bad choice; they’re cheaper than the legitimate privacy VPNs. Mullvad is famously 5€ per month, Proton is 4.49€ per month, but NordVPN is 3.09€, Surfshark is 2.19€, and PIA is 1.79€ per month.

    If you’re really just here to pretend you’re in another country (rather than privatemaxing) or hide your torrenting activity from your ISP, the cheaper options can be a perfectly legitimate choice.

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      1 month ago

      Mullvad doesn’t try and lock you in with any auto-renewal shenanigans and was the second service that I know of to offer payment via xmr. The first was ivpn but their server speeds were trash.

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        2 months ago

        That’s true. Mullvad will even let you send cash by post to them which is definitely not something you can do with other services.

        However, in terms of private payment options, you can always use BTC’s Lightning Network with the other options if that concerns you.

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        1 month ago

        The first was ivpn but their server speeds were trash.

        Their server speeds are great now. I tried them. They just have a very small number of servers compared to those other three

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        2 months ago

        Love it. If you want to stay anonymous, might as well go the whole way. Granted TOR should not be used with a VPN.