VPN Services

[kristamullpass6415]

Originally Posted by th3tuga

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)

[rtiksde]

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.

[anana]

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

[Ethereal]

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.

[Shub-Nigurrath]

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.

[argie]

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

[blue_devil]

Originally Posted by argie

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

How free? Free on browser extension?

[0xGhostwire]

Originally Posted by blue_devil

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