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AnOminous said:
If you can trust them with your Internet traffic you should be able to trust them with your card. I use crypto but that's really only going to cut one step out of the process of tracking you down if it's something like the feds or Apple after you.
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Suppose it doesn't really matter for me since in my country you basically have to dox yourself if you want to buy crypto.
 
They were once men said:
Suppose it doesn't really matter for me since in my country you basically have to dox yourself if you want to buy crypto.
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youre supposed to buy any low fee crypto you have easy access to (like ltc), then use an anonymous automated exchange to trade that crypto for monero, then pay for the vpn with monero
very easy, minimal losses, good privacy + you get to own monero
 
Has anyone had any exprience with airvpn i've used Mullvad for quite a while now but I want to switch to a VPN with port forwading because I torrent alot and I want to sneed and download more easily.
 
They were once men said:
Has anyone had any exprience with airvpn i've used Mullvad for quite a while now but I want to switch to a VPN with port forwading because I torrent alot and I want to sneed and download more easily.
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I switched from Mullvad to Airvpn for the port forwarding recently and haven't had problems. I don't use their client though, I just downloaded config files per their website and used them with Wireguard.
 
harbringer883 said:
Is free proton VPN any good?
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I use Proton, I like it. It's got a lot of country options, P2P, port forwarding, split tunnel. NetShield for additional adblocking, Secure Core (which is just two VPN connections). It has a built in Tor option as well.

Password Manager is good, they just released their own crypto wallet for I think only bitcoin at the moment.

Email obviously. If you get the paid version, you get unlimited hidden aliases for your email.

Proton Drive is nice. My mother and I have their Duo plan, we get 1TB to split between us. She mainly uses it for photo backups.

Definitely worth the price.
 
They were once men said:
Has anyone had any exprience with airvpn i've used Mullvad for quite a while now but I want to switch to a VPN with port forwading because I torrent alot and I want to sneed and download more easily.
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I used it before but not for port forwarding. Worked fine and their support was good but that was years ago and I'm basing that off of reading the support forum, never actively engaging. I'm not someone who needs high bandwidth or anything, though.
harbringer883 said:
Is free proton VPN any good?
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I've only used it to test it out and walked away thinking it's great as a trial VPN and better than nothing at all.
 
I used AirVPN for a while, and I did enjoy it being mostly hassle free, but I wasn't happy with having an email associated with the account. I didn't care for port forwarding since I don't torrent. I've switched to IVPN, and so far I can say that I'm happy with it. Fast and nothing is breaking (apart from one application, but it's always been finicky with VPNs, even on AirVPN).

I was torn between Mullvad and IVPN, but if IVPN turns out bad, I'll just refund and go with Mullvad.
 
raspberry mocha said:
I switched from Mullvad to Airvpn for the port forwarding recently and haven't had problems. I don't use their client though, I just downloaded config files per their website and used them with Wireguard.
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I initially used the Wireguard+config file option but swapped to the Eddie client because I'm a sucker for clean GUI. Works great for me. Accessible on multiple devices, easy swaps to different servers when needed and up-to-date info on server status and speeds through the client. Never had any issues.
 
I've been a Mullvad user for some time and can recommend it for at least its ease of use and having a proper split tunneling feature.
Unfortunately the government here has long since shifted to actively banning all commercial VPNs the moment they are detected so that means pretty much all of Mullvad's servers are hard banned by IP address or protocol, so I've moved to self-hosting my own tunneling solution.
Pros and Cons of self-hosting (Revised, my opinion only):

Pros:
  1. Cheaper than some VPN plans i've seen (at about 5-7$ for a good VPS with enough bandwith (1-2TB), can find even cheaper options out there.)
  2. You "own" the tunnel - no other users (unless you invite them) means better speeds and you being in control of the server itself means no risk of the VPN provider selling data from their black box on the sly.
  3. Wider selection of protocols since, again, you are the "owner" of the server, makes it possible to setup more censorship-resistant solutions than plain OpenVPN or Wireguard (trivial to detect and block for most current-age DPI solutions likely to be employed by ISPs.)
Cons:
  1. Not anonymous - you own the VPS therefore all traffic that goes through it can be attributed to you. (Partially solved by using crypto as payment but not all hosts allow it - Vultr for example only accepts crypto after there's been at least one successful balance top-up with a conventional method (credit cards etc).)
  2. (Highly unlikely as of now but is already kind of a possibility in some countries) Risk of government attention - if the government outlaws VPNs they will also introduce penalties for running VPN services, and whether or not you running your own tunnel solution will count as running a VPN service remains to be seen. (Most likely a non-issue unless you invite others to use your tunnel.)


If you are pessimistic about the trajectory the internet censorship cat and mouse game is heading for globally I'd suggest looking into self-hosting, specifically a tunneling method that is resistant to detection (like Xray protocols).

Ultimately it comes down to whether or not you care about your traffic going through the vpn server black box if you buy a ready-made solution and if and how hard VPN use to circumvent the new digital ID laws will be outlawed in the future.

Ultimately though I think every single country on Earth will end up adopting a similar law which will make bypassing such checks impossible. The modern internet as it is is too powerful of a tool for this not to happen.
 
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I only enter on my twitter with proton VPN, but I am having issues. When I enter, I stay on the perpetual cloudfare loop of "prove that you are human". The cloudfare screen restarts over and over again.
Can someone help me?
 
ChadBrazilian said:
Can someone help me?
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Ctrl+F5 on the page. If that doesn't work and you're using the ProtonVPN free tier you're probably fucked and will have to constantly reconnect and hope.
Proton (reasonably) keep the IPs that haven't been blacklisted to their "Plus" paid tier.
 
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