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What's the go-to VPN provider today (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I used Mullvad for a long time, but hearing about one of the two CEOs actively supporting and financing swedish Nazis, I'm looking to put my money elsewhere. That's the second one after Private Internet Access (who supported Gab).

I had AirVPN and Surfshark being recomnended, how do people here feel? What do you use?

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[-] tgr819@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Mostly it's a US based company and has to comply with US laws/surveillance

[-] rsky@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Does that matter if they have none of my data? I mean, they could log unencrypted traffic but for web browsing you should be forcing https wherever possible, so traffic logs would be mostly irrelevant. No doubt, they can see what you torrent but I can't imagine it matters that much if they have no data about you. They could certainly build a fingerprint based on torrents and unencrypted traffic but I feel like it may be too weak to be relevant. Maybe people worry about using the official clients? But you don't need to use them either, you can just establish a raw OpenVPN tunnel.

[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago

It’s an Israeli and US company. If anyone is somehow MITM snooping your TLS traffic, it’s them.

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