If you are a pirate VPN is an essential tool. I am trying to ascertain the popularity of various VPNs in piracy community. In this excerise, I will list several Popular VPNs in the comment if you use one of them just upvote that comment and reply the reason. If you don’t find your VPN listed add a comment with just their name. Reply the reason to it. This make it easier to understand the real life user cases.

P.S: I am only looking for paid VPNs please don’t mention “free vpn”.

  • ChrisLicht@lemm.eeEnglish
    265·
    1 year ago

    PIA, just because I’m lazy and it’s been fine for like a decade. If there is something better, happy to hear about it.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      PIA was sold to Kape Technologies a few years back and they have somewhat questionable history and that made me switch to Mullvad. Not because I thought it’s better VPN per-se, but because I wanted away from PIA and Mullvad seemed popular.

      The issue is who he sold it to – the notorious creator of some pernicious data-huffing ad-ware, Crossrider. The UK-based company was cofounded by an ex-Israeli surveillance agent and a billionaire previously convicted of insider trading who was later named in the Panama Papers. It produced software which previously allowed third-party developers to hijack users’ browsers via malware injection, redirect traffic to advertisers and slurp up private data.

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      • korewa@reddthat.comEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I’m on pia too I have a seed box anyway so it’s just for https queries. The seed box transfers locally via ssh