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What are good VPNs to use?

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Mullvand is the best I've found. It's a bit expensive though.

I'll second the Mullvad recommendation.

I don't even care that much about torrents or geo-locked stuff, I just trust them more than my ISP.

Setup was incredibly smooth and straightforward.

IIRC Mozilla also re-sells Mullvad's service under a name like (IIRC) FireFox VPN, which, last I'd heard, was still the only way to directly fund development of the browser.

Agreed. I was a happy Mullvad customer for a few years until Proton offered me a deal that was too good to pass up. I like to change up my VPN provider and/or account every couple of years anyway so I'll probably go back to Mullvad when my current term is up.

> IIRC Mozilla also re-sells Mullvad's service under a name like (IIRC) FireFox VPN, which, last I'd heard, was still the only way to directly fund development of the browser.

Which is a nice thing but you can't forward ports, and forwarding ports is a big benefit Mullvad has especially for torrents.

I'll third Mullvad and I don't think EUR5 a month is particularly expensive.

Well, you can get more shoddy VPNs for like 2 euros a month.

I used Algo to make my own, it builds a VPN server on your host. If you choose to host on digitalocean the script sets everything up via API and you're done in minutes.

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

I reckon it is against DigitalOcean's terms of service to seed copyrighted content. They forward DMCA complaints and will threaten to deactivate your account if you disregard warnings.

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