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Friends,

Given how popular VPNs are today, it is difficult to find one that has reasonably acceptable IP scores (enough not to get prompted by Google every time I search).

Can anyone provide recommendations for VPNs with decent IP scores? Please nothing 'mainstream'.

Sincerely,
Fyyre

There are two basic choices at this day and age. One is a dedicated IP VPN, something many VPN service providers are selling. Second would be to just get a virtual private server that allows tunneling. If you want to change locations it's not as easy though. Amazon is probably the biggest service for this with wide coverage and good management tools but they come at a significant cost.

Scoring systems for everything even phone numbers are making things pretty tough nowadays.

Hotspot Shield

Unfortunately, anything posted here in the open is bound to get the IP blacklisted very fast!
But generally, a dedicated VPN created from a VPS with a clean IP is the best bet.

Hi chants!

Thanks for the reply =)

I've made AWS accounts, used Lightsail server + Linux + OpenVPN in the past, these work very well... however, yes the cost and personal attribution makes this problematic.

Seems like the state of affairs is just that.

I appreciate the insight!

-Fyyre

Thanks @th3tuga. A personal VPS is the way to go. What is the best way to set up the VPN on a VPS? Any suggestions?
@Fyyre Most of the AWS IPs are blacklisted by now. They used to work in the past. Not so clean anymore.

I will suggest go with Vultr. They have cheap linux VM with dedicated ip ($5) if you want to. I use it for hosting small applications. Been solid service and uptime.

Vultr and DigitalOcean already abused too much. Most of the IPs from there are already blacklisted. So not much of use for VPN. Already tried.
Should be okay for hosting though.

What about providers of ShadowSocks, Trojan, V2Ray, Clash, etc.. ? Any of these have clean IPs?

Any MaaS that provides good IPs? =P

We should start a "rent your IP address" business. Basically if having a legitimate looking IP address has value to it, then obviously large providers will be quickly identified in today's world. But if there were a convenient way to share your IP for others traffic, while you share their IP, that would be pretty much an endgame for this little non-clean IP detection cottage industry. Basically if you could pay/get paid and run some sort of balance by using/providing a VPN with your own bandwidth in some pool of individual users, that could at least get interesting to decentralize from the VPN model.

What about Tor? Are Tor exit nodes IPs clean?

This was tried in the past.
Users abused the IPs immediately by using them for commiting financial crimes and for sharing some highly illegal stuff like CSAM.
Of course, the authorities ended up arresting the original owners of the IPs rather than the criminals who "rented" and abused them.

A very bad idea for the renters.
I got into very serious trouble with the law enforcement at one point when I unwittingly did something similar.

Give m247 a try.

Not VPN but I may prefer residential or mobile proxies. But they cost a lot. Just for short term. But for sure, depends on your purpose.

I agree.. residential proxy is great. Correct me if I am wrong .. typically these depend on malware for the proxy service. First one I remember was TDL3, forever ago=)

Purpose normally probing organizations, general attempted anonymity. No darknet, CSAM, etc.. this things not for me.

However if you know of quality one, this is much needed and I am open to suggestions )

In 2024 .. it is not trivial to find any VPN+decent speed that the jerk-offs at Max Mind or related 'cybersecurity' / white hat corporate types not sell on proxy/blacklist to companies for much money... or maybe I old and grumpy things are not trivial like 10 years ago ;)

@chants - what you said - makes sense.

This is a good one: https://iproyal.com
Bit expensive but good.

IPRoyal is a very shady company.

Their IP addresses are okay but their privacy policy is a big joke:

-They insist on a working telephone number. They ring you once every few days and they suspend your account if you don't answer.
-They insist on a live ID verification over webcam or mobile app, with your government issued photo ID and also want to see your face live on the cam.
This is even if you opt to pay by crypto instead of credit cards.

They have a history of selling user info gathered for verification, to marketers.
This is a strategy followed by many residential proxy/VPN providers these days. They claim that the ID verification is for security purposes and then sell it.

-a.k.a Bl4ckCyb3rEnigm4 / Ethereal (my alternate nickname)

When I needed a VPN for a short time, I used the services of hide.me.
The price was good and I liked the work and agility.

If it's for something more long-term, I recommend kimsufi.com's servers.

I usually use Proton VPN (free) for daily needs.

Hi Fyyre.
In my personal experience, the best would be having your own setup.
Because that way you can work with the provider to get a clean IP address, and then, with little setup, have your VPN server of choice (think at SoftEther, OpenVPN, Wireguard), with single or multi-hop configuration.
In general, I've written my own builder, that setups Wireguard, then Shadowsocks + Cloak (in order to effectively undermine active probing by some ISPs or infrastructure like the GFW of China, then I setup IPTables rules to ensure the server does not expose anything unwanted (fwknop). You can use V2Ray instead of cloak but that would also require to purchase a domain for it to work.
At that point, on a typical Windows client machine (maybe a VM), you would only need, the official WireGuard and Shadowsocks client, plus Proxifier (optional).
Let me know if you need any help in get it done.

I am using AdGuard VPN, which has relatively few nodes and some blacklisted ones. However, since they are based in Cyprus, they are not subject to US or EU legislation and, therefore, do not store logs.

ProtonVPN. It has standalone and browser extension. Extremely fast, no logs. - Free

How free? Free on browser extension?

You just have to create a free account and you can use the following features

• 1 device
• No ads
• No logs
• Unlimited & free forever

They have their own client available on nearly all platforms and a browser extension which you should be able to use with a free client.

If you want to switch to premium you should wait for events like black friday christmas or something like that to profit from price drops.

My experience with other services

Hide.me: Getting google prompts but not that often
ProtonVPN: Rarely any prompts maybe 1/20 times
Perfect Privacy: Extremly Good but quite expensive
OVPN: Was decent, never got a prompt but after the takeover I dont trust them anymore
MullvadVPN: Often got speed problems but rarely got a prompt at all.
nvpn: Last time I used them was long time ago but I dont remember ever getting a prompt at all since you also can buy a dedicated IP

Greetings

Use Proton its free and has no bandwidth limit
Or for Chrome 1ClickVPN free with a lot of free countries to choose
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Just because it is a little bit interesting, this mobile app is what people are running to provide IPRoyal their residential proxies: https://pawns.app/internet-sharing/

There is a similar service that provides an app, where you share your own internet and in return get to use other users (eg. a "free" VPN), called Hola.
https://hola.org/

They also have a commercial side of the business that sells access to the Hola network: https://brightdata.com/

It used to be possible to manipulate the Hola client, to get free access to the residential IPs. Although I remember something about it kept making it so I couldn't send many requests before I was proxied through one of their supernodes (just a server they were running).

You can try 1.1.1.1. It works well for me. I hope it will be helpful to you.

I'm sorry for replying to this lengthy post, but so far I have been searching for some information about VPNs

Due to the increasing upgrade of GFW in China, many VPNs are unable to function properly. Recently, I have been searching for low-risk or home broadband to avoid some social media being banned.

I was recommended by a friend a few days ago https://in.mesl.cloud/ Their nodes and IP quality are also quite good. The only disadvantage is that it mainly serves Chinese users and needs to use Alipay or WeChat payment.

However, they have also made public some of their home broadband operators, perhaps this information can help you build your own:

Hong Kong/HK: HKT, HKBN
Taiwan/TW: Henet, Apol, SeedNet
Singapore/SG: Starhub
Macau/MO: CTM, MTel
Japan/JP: SoftBank, Rakuten, Sonet, Biglobe, Arteria
Korea/KR: KT, LG, Sejong
Australia/AU: Optus, Nexthop
New Zealand/NZ: Vetta
United States/US: Verizon, Comcast, T-Mobile
Canada/CA: Bell, Telus
Mexico/MX: Telmex
Argentina/AR: Claro
Uruguay/UE: Antel
Ecuador/EC: XTRIM
UK/UK: Virgin Media
Germany/DE: Deutsche Telekom
France/FR: Orange
Austria/AT: T-Mobile
Latvia/LV: Telenet SIA
Türkiye/TR: Turktelekom
Bahrain/BH: Batelco
Malaysia/MY: Telekom Malaysia/TM, Time
Thailand/TH: AIS Fiber
Vietnam/VN: FPT
Kazakhstan/KL: JSC Kazakhtelecom
Mongolia: Unitel
Ethiopia/ET: Ethio Telecom

how about deeper connect air ,,,Offers lifetime, free DPN access

This company claims to be a "legally registered real estate company in California, with owned apartments in multiple cities across California. It has obtained operator authorization (Authorized Reseller), and network equipment is deployed within its own apartments. All IPs are real residential broadband."

I haven't used it, but its monthly rent is quite expensive, with the minimum being $35.

https://www.vircs.com/products

I using Happ VPN. The client available on GitHub:
https://github.com/Happ-proxy

It just the client, working keys may be found on Telegram (free time limited or paid) by global searching "v2RayTun", "Vless", etc. Use this VPN on 6 devices (PC, 2 notebooks, iPad, iPhone and Android mobile) within 8 monts. The most stable service. Price is cheaper than other.

I use other paid VPN services before (like Hotspot Shield) with poor results: sometimes works, sometimes not...