For the Pia engineer who ends up reading this. I have bin a Pia user for 5+ years. I have recommended it to friends and family. Now I have to tell them all to cancel.
So are AirVPN, Insorg and IVPN.
Edit: For background, see https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252466203/Top-VPNs-secre...
I'm not a customer of either, just been researching alternatives since tis news hit earlier this week.
And no, I am not paid or otherwise compensated to write this, or affiliated with them other then being a customer.
[*] They even say: "Please avoid writing your name or address on the envelope."
Do they take any other cryptocurrencies, or would I have to convert some other coin into bitcoin to pay them?
OpenVPN is nice, since my OpenWRT router can be a client.
EDIT: I emailed Mullvad and received a reply within 15 minutes! and it answered my questions accurately! I think they win the customer service award for today :D
They have openvpn instructions for openwrt at https://mullvad.net/en/help/openwrt-routers-and-mullvad-vpn/
And their clients are open source: https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app
(sorry for not replying earlier!)
https://vpnpro.com/blog/confusion-in-the-vpn-industry-is-nor...
someone from PIA's patent company was caught trying to smear other VPN's but forgot to hide his profile image.
Any article on the internet that uses a question mark in the headline is either clickbait or dealing in suppositions, not facts.
There are real privacy enthusiaists behind ipredator.
Looking for alternatives now. Is NordVPN any good?
https://premium.firefox.com/vpn/
Presumably, they'll partner with a vendor that they can audit, but who knows.
Having worked at Mozilla I'm confident lots of individuals would leak if forced to build backdoors :)
I trust Mozilla to not cooperate with anyone less powerful than Uncle Sam which is a lot more than most shady fly-by-night VPN operators.
If you're using your VPN as protection against your ISP, wifi provider (internet Cafe, school, workplace, home), or some other MITM you're better off with a service run by a serious company, with a lot to lose from a scandal and a long track record of not lying and being technically competent.
If you're looking to hide your browsing from the US government you should a) give up or b) definitely not use a commercial VPN.
1. Their Backdoor of Advertisements Plugins (Ref the USA network Ads for Mr. Robot)
2. Their Forcing DoH through CloudFlare
3. Their change to require OptOut instead of OptIn for most Privacy violating features (like User Telmentary data)
4. Their starting of the Mozilla Ministry of Truth strait out of an Orwell novel
5. Banning of Plugins due to Ideology
6. Their recent push for Online Censorship
That is just a start
Given all the shilling and backstabbing in the online VPN recommendation industry, it’s hard to trust any advice now, not even comments here. God knows who’s a shill.
But those geoblocks and the occasional need to anonymize activities... Really hard to solve. (I know Tor. Tor is too damn slow.)
Don't the Know Your Customer laws banks have to adhere to mean that anonymous cards are essentially a thing of the past?
Plus in many places you can bring in Change to a CoinStar can convert your coins to a Visa Gift card
Oh look, you're one of them. (pat on head)
Get ProtonVPN. Same owners as ProtonMail.
...but sounds like their IMAP is broken from googling. Not sure I can live with that.
That's another plus. You don't actually have to register an account with them, but instead their website generates a random number for you that you use to log in. All in all they appear to be very transparent.