Recommended VPN

[Alek]

What's your favorite VPN and why?

Thanks.
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[Dex]

On 15/07/2018 04:14, Alek wrote:
> What's your favorite VPN and why?
>
> Thanks.
>

Windscribe. Get 60GB a month on a free account.

[nospam]

In article <piefu6$1pv5$1...@gioia.aioe.org>, Dex <D...@me.com> wrote:

> Windscribe. Get 60GB a month on a free account.

10 gig a month for free, not 60.

<https://windscribe.com/faq>
If you are a light user, you can use Windscribe for free. You get up
to 10GB of data per month, and you can use all of the tools we offer.
If you need more data, for just $9/month you get unlimited usage. You
probably spend 10x that on coffee alone!

[Dex]

I had a promo code.

[nospam]

In article <piegm9$1rha$1...@gioia.aioe.org>, Dex <D...@me.com> wrote:

> I had a promo code.

that won't help the op.

[Chris in Makati]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 00:15:13 -0400, nospam <nos...@nospam.invalid>
wrote:

>In article <piegm9$1rha$1...@gioia.aioe.org>, Dex <D...@me.com> wrote:
>
>> I had a promo code.
>
>that won't help the op.

His question was "What's your favorite VPN and why?"

Dex answered that question.

[nospam]

In article <887mkdhqgind8f0mv...@4ax.com>, Chris in

Makati <ma...@nospam.com> wrote:

> >> I had a promo code.
> >
> >that won't help the op.
>
> His question was "What's your favorite VPN and why?"
>
> Dex answered that question.

except that 60 gig free does not apply to new users who don't have the
appropriate promo code.

new users get 10 gig for free, and throttled speeds too.

[Caver1]

On 7/14/18 11:14 PM, Alek wrote:
> What's your favorite VPN and why?
>
> Thanks.
>

Private Internet Access.
$3.99 per month, unlimited, good amount of servers,. Overall a good VPN.
privateinternetaccess.com

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Caver1

[Arlen Holder]

On 14 Jul 2018 19:14:31 GMT, Alek wrote:

> What's your favorite VPN and why?

Mine favorite public VPN server is the free VPNGate educational experiment:
<http://vpngate.net>

The reason why it's my favorite source for OpenVPN configuration files is
mostly that it has over 6,000 different VPN servers to choose from.

It's not for everyone though, especially since it's an educational project.
So you won't find it on any top-10 lists, I don't think.

For that, there are plenty of public vpn service reviews, many of which are
simply shills though. Here's just one:
Top 20 public vpn providers in 2018
<https://www.lifewire.com/best-vpn-service-providers-4061659>

But it's really hard to find the best vpn for everyone because of the
different weights people put on the various pros and cons.

NOTE: I assume the OP was talking about public VPN services.

For the favorite VPN client, my favorite client is the open-source openvpn
client, available on all standard consumer platforms. For example:
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.blinkt.openvpn&hl=en_US>

[Arlen Holder]

In response to the following from Arlen Holder:

> But it's really hard to find the best vpn for everyone because of the
> different weights people put on the various pros and cons.

Since this question has been asked on Usenet a billion times already,
this is a useful link for the OP to read, from Mike Easter:
<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/56KgMK6n090/y4eFLcsSAAAJ>

For example, Mike referenced this helpful link:
https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-section/

Which contained "summary" charts, such as:
https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/

But which still resulted in this reasonable disclaimer by Mike:
<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/56KgMK6n090/HilWpDh2AQAJ>

If you put a gun to my head and asked me to recommend a VPN service, I'd
probably go with what Mike Easter helpfully suggested over here:
<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/56KgMK6n090/rfU41e6NAQAJ>
Proton VPN https://www.bestvpn.com/protonvpn-review/

Here's a comparison of ProtonVPN against the vpngate VPN that directly
answers your questtiopn of what VPN I use.
<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/56KgMK6n090/tD9I0n6gAQAJ>

But personally, I use vpngate simply because there is zero registration and
because the thousands of possible files are all self-contained (no
passwords to remember, and no login, no payment, no nothing. Just a wget
script (or a web browser).

DISCLAIMER: While it's not required, for privacy reasons, I use a score of
Linux wget and killswitch and dnsleak and network test and app-kill and
geolocation and reliability-testing, etc., bash scripts kindly written (and
archived) by folks on the Linux newsgroup like Marek Novotney and others,
years ago, which have resulted in over 6,000 text config files on my
system, where I randomly choose between any of those 6,000 VPN servers in
something like 50 countries around the world at any given time (it's all
script driven as even my Usenet "reader" is just an ancient script with
"vi" as the front end).

Enough with disclaimes ... getting back to the point...

If I assume that the OP is asking the question because the OP wants to
start using VPN, and if I assume that my answer is designed by me to be
leveraged to as many people as possible, then my recommendation, having
been through this process *years* ago, is the following:

1. First get up and running on VPN in a few minutes (see previous post).
2. Test it out for fun - but don't do anything serious. Just have fun.
--- once you get the hang of it ---
3. Pick any well-reviewed VPN Service (like ProtonVPN if you want).
4. Do whatever they say you need to do to get up & running.

Always remember, nobody can pick a VPN service for you just like nobody can
pick a wife for you - but - people can give you general recommendations on
what to look for and what to look out for.

Again, fups to the Android ng; you may fup to your local ng.

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HINT: This is posted using a *different* VPN server than the prior post.

[Arlen Holder]

On 15 Jul 2018 05:32:49 GMT, Caver1 wrote:

> Private Internet Access.
> $3.99 per month, unlimited, good amount of servers,. Overall a good VPN.
> privateinternetaccess.com

I just googled for the OP for this thread, where a bunch of people stated
which VPN they liked best and for what reasons.

Free public VPN in minutes
<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/56KgMK6n090/HKhGegCAAQAJ>

As Mike Easter and Shadow brought up in that thread, the problem with
choosing a VPN for someone else is it's sort of like picking a bride for
them.

There are so many things to consider, where, for example, here's the
analysis Mike Easter pointed me to for my favorite VPN service, which is
the vpngate service, but remember, my reasons may be different than the
OP's reasons.
VPN SERVICE VPN Gate
Jurisdiction Based in (Country) Japan
Jurisdiction """Fourteen Eyes"" Country" Cooperative Yellow
Jurisdiction Enemy of the Internet No green
Logging Traffic logs yes red
Logging DNS Requests yes red
Logging Timestamps yes red
Logging Bandwidth yes red
Logging IP Address yes red
Activism Anonymous Payment Method yes green
Activism Accepts Crypto Currency no red
Activism PGP Key Available no red
Activism Gives back to Privacy Causes no red
Activism Meets PrivacyToolsIO Criteria no red
Leak protection 1st Party DNS Servers no red
Leak protection IPv6 Supported / Blocked no red
Protocols Offers OpenVPN yes green
Obfuscation Supports Multihop white
Obfuscation Supports TCP Port 443 yes green
Obfuscation Supports Obfsproxy white
Obfuscation Supports SOCKS white
Obfuscation Supports SSL Tunnel yes green
Obfuscation Supports SSH Tunnel white
Obfuscation Other Proprietary Protocols white
Port blocking Blocks SMTP (Authent.) white
Port blocking Blocks P2P some yellow
Speeds US Server DL Speeds (%) 0.00 white
Speeds International Server DL Speeds (%) 0.00 white
Servers Dedicated or Virtual white
Security Default Provided white
Security Strongest Provided AES-256 green
Security Weakest Provided white
Security Strongest Provided white
Availability # of Simultaneous Connections 25 green
Availability # of Countries 24 green
Availability # of Servers 7,670 green
Support Linux Support (Manual) white (BTW, it works fine on Linux)
Website # of Persistent Cookies 3 yellow
Website # of External Trackers 2 green
Website # of Proprietary API's 1 green
Website Server SSL Rating white
Website SSL Certificate issued to no ssl cert red
Pricing $ / Month - (Annual Pricing) 0.00 green
Pricing $ / Connection / Month 0.00 green
Pricing Free Trial Available Free
Pricing Refund Window (Days) 0 red (huh? It's free. How could that be red?)
Ethics Contradictory Logging Policies white
Ethics Falsely Claims Service is 100% Effective white
Policies Incentivizes social media spam white
Policies Forbids spam white
Policies Requires ethical copy white
Policies Requires full disclosure white
Affiliates Practice ethical copy white
Affiliates Give full disclosure white

While any of the above may be important to the OP, often this is the short
list of the half-dozen things that might be important to most people:
1. Location
2. Encryption
3. Bitcoin payment
4. Protocol (e.g., supports OpenVPN)
5. Logging
6. Price

There is nobody who can recommend the perfect service for the OP if they
don't know what the OP cares about most.

For example, I care most about having 6,000 vpn servers from 50 countries
in my scripts and I don't want to log into anything, nor remember any
passwords, etc., since my environment is script driven.

The OP will certainly have other needs, where, if the OP puts a gun to my
head to choose him a server, I'd tell him to use VpnGate for a few days as
a first girlfriend, just to get the hang of it, but not to do anything
serious - and then - when he's ready for serious action, then use ProtonVPN
for a few months as a first love, and then, once he gets the hang of VPN,
then he would have the knowledge to choose the VPN wife he wants to live
with long term.

PS: That nospam guy is a cowardly bully troll - who can only shoot down
analogies (big deal) but he will never offer any purposefully helpful
advice to the OP and he won't provide references - and - worse - his
unhelpful guesses are almost always wrong (the monkey does better).