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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".

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[–] aPirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Currently proton its decent though I'm thinking of moving to mullvad even though they've removed portforwarding.

[–] CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

I've used both and much prefer Proton for sailing the seas. Connecting through France (highest speed + p2p) with port forwarding is the best torrent speed I've had on a VPN. The only slight annoyance is it switching the forwarded port every time it reconnects, but I run it 24/7 anyway.

Just skip the "official" client and run it through gluetun. It's a much better experience.

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did this and found it worked way better in terms of stability. Bonus is that Mullvad has a proper Linux client whereas Proton's is just a cobbled-together mess that's not worth using and is no where close to feature parity with the Windows client

[–] rfy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And in the case that your Linux distro doesn't have a client in their repos, you can very easily use Mullvad with wireguard in the terminal.

[–] java@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

you can very easily use Mullvad with wireguard in the terminal

To be fair, same with Proton. OpenVPN and WireGuard configurations are available.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Mullvad is great. Also check out IVPN, they are kinda similar to Mullvad (they also allow for anonymous registration without an Email address and they accept anonymous Monero payments). Maybe take a look at AirVPN if you need port forwarding.