Topic: Which VPN to pick? - page 3. (Read 1941 times)

Boo. Also, that makes no sense. Given that BCH's hash rate is only around 2% of bitcoin's hash rate, it takes significantly longer for a BCH transaction to be as secure or "final" as a BTC one. What is their rationale behind this?

Please read the thread before replying. Free VPNs are terrible and should be completely avoided. You are making your privacy and security worse by using them

Wow. Proof that even when free VPNs explicitly state they do not keep logs (see the below quote from UFO VPN's Privacy Policy), they are blatantly lying and are selling you out to third parties. As I said above, they have to make their money somewhere, or else they wouldn't exist.

I completely agree with you.
A good motivation not to use free VPNs should be the recent news about how easy it is to hack them and get user data.



https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/17/ufo_vpn_database/

I rarely use VPN on a PC, most of the time I use it on my phone and the app I use is Turbo VPN (I use the mod version), it has a lot of options with so many countries, most they all work fine. I rate it 8/10.
With PC version, I recommen you use: ChrisPC Free VPN Connection

That still works And until they accept LN (Lightning Network Bitcoin), I'm ashamed to admit I usually pay them in BCH, because they accept it with zero confirmations (unlike BTC), so it only takes about a minute to activate.

Free VPNs are generally a no-go.

VPN providers have to make their money somewhere, otherwise they would go broke and stop operating. It costs money to pay for servers, pay for bandwidth, host their website, develop their app, and so on. As the old saying goes, if you are getting something for free, then you are the product. With free VPNs, your data is their product. They log everything you do, build a profile of your activities, which they can sell to ad agencies, marketing companies, data aggregators, political entities, and so on. Using a free VPN will make your privacy worse, not better.

Paid VPNs generally offer more locations, more bandwidth, better speeds, more devices at a time, as well as a lot of technical features such as choosing UDP or TCP, choosing ports, choosing encryption methods, etc. which you generally don't get with free VPNs. The good paid VPNs (but definitely not all paid VPNs) also don't log your data and don't sell it to third parties.

The only free VPN I would ever even consider using would be ProtonVPN, since their free service is subsidized by their paid services. Having said that, if you only need a VPN for a short period, LoyceV told me about Mullvad, which allows you to pay for days or even hours rather than a monthly or annual subscription.

There are some free VPN and many have the premier or paid versions. If we use the free ones, will we be compromising on our privacy ?

What's the benefit of paid versions except it offers more locations to connect and few other features ?

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#detailed-vpn-comparison

This spreadsheet is really useful for VPN comparison. It's incredibly details and will help you narrow down your choices based on what factors you consider the most important in a VPN.

When talking about VPN issues that must be chosen, of course you should consider some of the services provided by the VPN provider, such as:
Trusted VPN Provider: Trustworthy audited privacy policies independently design the system to avoid storing users' personal data.
Compatible with all devices that you use: so it will be easier for you to use the VPN service on all devices you have.
A variety of features that you need that will make you comfortable using the VPN service.
Both are available in various locations: so you can choose the location of the closest server so that the connection is faster.
and the last is customer support that must be online 24 hours: so that if there is an error or other problems can immediately report and respond quickly

I agree that Tor is often a better choice than VPNs (and have said as much in multiple other posts), but I disagree with this. I would argue that this statement definitely applies to the Western World.

Most of the Western World practices mass surveillance of their citizens, especially 5/9/14-eyes countries. This includes ISPs logging your internet activities and browsing history against your real name and address. Their privacy policies allow them to record everything they possibly can about you and share that with anyone at all that they want to, including government surveillance programs and three letter agencies.

I would much sooner trust a VPN provider located in a privacy respecting nation such as NordVPN in Panama or ProtonVPN in Switzerland than I would any American ISP.

I'm not a real fan with the use of the NordVPN instead I'm using an HTTP injector and OpenVPN because they have a slow internet connection sometimes and at the same time some of the countries are prohibited and you need to pay them just to get the country that you want to use.

But the problem on using those I gave is you need a configuration to find out which country and those needs to have a password and user name only a few groups are offering those ones who creates the configuration but still it took almost a month before this expires and this is an absolutely free so it is good for me too.


If you want to browse into the world of internet anonymously it is good to use a VPN but still one of the problem js the server or the ISP who gives to you.

Most people don't really need a VPN.
They believe a VPN increases their privacy and security, which is plain wrong.

Depending on the country you live in, a VPN provider might be more trustworthy than your ISP. But this definitely does not apply to the western world.
Anyone using a VPN to protect his privacy, is doing something wrong.

The majority of people asking questions about VPNs actually shouldn't use one because there are better alternatives available which do not completely invade their privacy.

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Though, I use VPN proxy master.[/quote]
VPN Proxy Master have a privacy policy which is 50% plagiarized, and 50% in non-understandable broken English. Have a look here for more details: https://www.techradar.com/reviews/vpn-proxy-master. They are definitely one to avoid.

CyberGhost are another one to avoid. See my previous post in this thread here for reasons why: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.53955119

I've never recommended a specific VPN, because different people need and use VPNs for different reasons, and there is not a single best "one size fits all" VPN for all requirements. All I do is point out which ones have terrible privacy policies, have poor nietrack records, have been bought out by compas with poor history on privacy or shady ethics, and so forth.

If you are serious about choosing a good VPN, then here are the places you should start reading:
https://thatoneprivacysite.net/choosing-the-best-vpn-for-you/
https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/

The choice on VPN is going to be confusing because, we are only going to speak out of the once that worked for us and discredit the once we haven't tested but then on my part, I'll say you go with it if your research tells you it's good.
Though, I use VPN proxy master.

If you're into Linux, you could rent a VPS with unlimited traffic (for example one provider) and then also rent some IPs from some ISP to run your own VPN with an open source service. This way you don't have to trust a third party company. Of course that takes much more work, so I wouldn't recommend it because the learning curve if you're new is steep.

So there's also value in using a service some times. For such uses, I would always recommend IVPN. I think they're the most transparent and privacy friendly VPN. So if the purpose is privacy and security, they're the best or at least one of the best among service.

Good VPNs aren't slow. Maybe if you are using some free VPN (which you shouldn't be, since they almost unanimously collect and sell your data), but if you are using a reputable paid VPN, you shouldn't see your speed drop by more than a couple of percent.

Generally speaking no, Tor and VPNs do not serve the same purpose, although they can achieve similar outcomes in some situations.

Depends where your Tor exit node is located, as it might also be in a banned country. You can get round this by swapping to a new circuit for the site in question.

If we don't use any vpn but instead use the TOR browser, will it serve the same purpose ? For example i want to open a site which is restricted in my country. So instead of using vpn, i open the site in TOR browser ? Will that be the same as using a VPN ?

Nobody like VPN (slow connection) except for hiding IP or privacy purpose.

He mentioned Reddit, in my country Reddit was banned can't access it without a VPN or if you like gambling but your country had restricted, you should use a VPN, if allowed.

seems Binance allow VPN,

How to Use a VPN to Access Binance

In case of using VPN i might choose Proton-VPN for free of charge use it's a touch more advantage than other VPNs there's the difficulty of security and safety of one's own information aside from these VPN is widely wont to unblock any website. At an equivalent time if your ISP doesn't allow you to access an internet site you'll easily access it employing a VPN. Again if you would like to use the web with an IP address somewhere aside from the IP address given by your ISP then that's also possible through the utilization of VPN.

I have a question, why do you like to use VPN?
If you would like to use your VPN for exchange trading like Binance, Kucoin etc then you are doing wrong. They don't allow to use VPN using their trading platform. You should you real IP to use your trading exchange else you could lose your ID.
If I am wrong about my guessing then you could try Cyberghost.

Go CRYPTO. And by that i mean Orchid (OXT) VPN. It's based on ETH blockchain, and it's a fun and interesting project.
However, it's still in it's infancy (they do have a working app, and it works beautifully) amd speed on some nodes can be sluggish.