I just purchased a 1 year VPN subscription. My primary goal is privacy and avoiding government surveillance.
I've heard that Switzerland seems to be a good VPN location when it comes to privacy, although I am unfortunately not able to use that location because all my VPN provider's servers in Switzerland are terribly slow and completely unusable.
What does Sup Forums recommend? Which location should I connect to when my main goal is privacy and avoiding logging, etc.?
Russia, Lithaunia, Romania, Netherlands. Switzerland is going full spy mode. There is a CCC talk on that, dont know if its translated to english tho. Make sure to use cascading meaning: VPN1 -> VPN2 -> Internet
Carson Murphy
>Ctlr + F = Ukraine >warning beep (not found) You should use Ukraine, OP ^.^
OP here, I tried every single Switzerland server on AirVPN and the maximum download bandwidth I got is 1.4 MB/s, I tried both UDP and TCP.
My regular download bandwidth (without VPN) is 18 MB/s.
What's your approximate download speed on the Swiss servers?
Blake Perry
>Implying I need a VPN >What is port forwarding on VPS
Cooper Watson
Self-hosted VPNs don't always provide the same level of privacy as a shared/commercial VPN.
You stick out much more since you're the only one using that VPS' IP address, hence why I prefer a shared VPN.
Aaron Davis
110 mbit/s download & upload
Xavier Wood
Interesting, did you have to do anything specific in order to be able to achieve that speed? Are you using their client? I just punched in the OpenVPN profile given by the AirVPN configurator into my ASUS DD-WRT router and got the before-mentioned terrible speeds...
Adrian Reyes
>Privacy >As you don't have any access to the server and they could log everything behind your back. Pick one.
Cameron Miller
Need a VPN that isn't range b& by gookmoot. AirVPN is awesome, but was too abused by faggots.
Owen Wright
Yes, that's true, however you should note that your VPS provider could just as well log your internet traffic without you ever realizing it.
this I dont get all the vpn hype: you have ZERO proof theyre not lying, all of them
Blake Sanders
It's a trust thing and about the best we have right now, short of using TOR or some other obscure services like freenet or i2p.
Dylan Bell
I would rather take the chance that *maybe* my VPN provider logs my internet traffic than being fully assured that my ISP is logging my every single step (because they are required to do so by law).
Julian Cooper
sauce
Juan Walker
What's the point of a VPN if your browser has a unique fingerprint?
I've already taken care of blocking as much browser fingerprinting as possible in my browser (uBlock Origin, CanvasBlocker, Self-Destructing Cookies, No Resource URI Leak, etc.)
Levi Jackson
>Implying all internet activity happens through a browser
Bentley Taylor
to be protected it's not the exit vpn tunnel which count in first but the country where the company is located.
respect or not dmca etc ...
David Morgan
neither of those links cite a lawful requirement nor accuse the USA of doing so
Kayden Rogers
you must love google's cookies
Jose Reyes
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Jace Jones
Can you give a complete list. I'm interested
Charles Perry
still doesn't back up your original claim. They're obviously going to do all kinds of bullshit on the carbon copies they take down from everything
Christopher Jackson
ISP data retention is a common practice by ISPs, especially in the EU (again, see the links I provided). I live in the Netherlands, which is part of the EU.
Upon further research, I've actually found out that the Netherlands has recently dropped the requirement for data retention (2 years ago or so), so excuse me for that invalid claim. (ivpn.net/data-retention-laws/netherlands)
However, data retention was definitely active in the Netherlands until just a few years ago and who knows if the ISPs are still logging everything?
Yes, the requirement for data retention was dropped, however it is still perfectly possible and legal for the ISPs to log my every single step, and I genuinely think they are doing so even to this day.
It all comes down to trust, but I personally trust a reputable company like AirVPN that when they say they don't keep logs, that they do actually stay true to that claim and don't keep any logs. My ISP however never says "We don't keep logs", probably because they do keep them.
Blake Morgan
Here's a few resources regarding browser fingerprinting avoidance and more privacy-related stuff, highly suggest you check them all out:
I personally use at the moment: Waterfox (Due to it having absolutely no telemetry) uBlock Origin Decentraleyes CanvasBlocker No Resource URI Leak HTTPS by default HTTPS Everywhere Self-Destructing Cookies + A custom Hosts file with a bunch of spy- and tracking domains blocked (see github.com/StevenBlack/hosts and hosts-file.net/)
Make sure to disable the DNSClient service in Windows if you plan on importing any of the above mentioned Hosts files, as you'll most likely run into severe performance problems with DNS resolving.
I tried using uMatrix for a while but for me it's not really worth the amount of effort you have to put into it. Having a Hosts file with as many known tracking domains, etc. blocked is a better solution for me personally.
Jacob Sanchez
Oh yeah and I also have the Referer Header disabled in about:config (network.http.sendRefererHeader = 0). Although this does break some websites, so I have to enable it from time to time and then re-disable it again.
Robert Williams
>Waterfox (Due to it having absolutely no telemetry) I use Firefox profiles for my different needs. Do you know of any resource describing the telemetry in Firefox. Also curious
>Make sure to disable the DNSClient service in Windows if you plan on importing any of the above mentioned Hosts files, as you'll most likely run into severe performance problems with DNS resolving. I use Linux, I intend to look into DNSCrypt with Unbound.
>I tried using uMatrix for a while but for me it's not really worth the amount of effort you have to put into it. Agreed. It's a lot of effort. I just started using it and for now it's usefull for certain torrent sites.
Christian Perry
i know marketeers lurk this board and threads like this. so hear me out:
offer a 1 dollar a month service capped at 5Mbps for poor countries. you cunts.
As a first step I'd recommend you to go into Options->Advanced->Data Choices and untick all checkboxes, then open up about:config and set "datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled" to false, as this is - according to Mozilla - a killswitch to disable any uploading of telemetry/data collection, just to make sure.
James Walker
Thanks user. Lots of reading to do.
Jaxson Perry
Just use TOR. You don't need a VPN.
Samuel Ross
Why would you need all these VPNs? Do you have something to hide from the government surveillance? Are you a terrorist? Law-abiding citizens should not seek help of these shady services, if they have nothing to hide. Just the fact that you are seeking to use such services can be suspicious and even incriminating. How do you know that VPN providers don't submit the entire data about their customers to the government. Most likely all the people who used VPN or rented a VPS are already accounted for, flagged as "potential terrorists" and blacklisted by the secret services. Now think what will happen to these people in case of a martial law.
Alexander Morgan
I would use Tor, however: 1) Slow as hell 2) Can't use UDP-based programs such as TeamSpeak anymore, which sucks
Matthew Butler
I am none of those things. I simply don't want my ISP to know absolutely everything I'm up to 24/7, even if it's nothing shady. When I browse on eBay, I don't want my ISP to know that. Simply because they don't need to know that. Everyone has googled at least one embarrassing thing in their life, who knows what governments will be capable of in 10 years from now on? What if they start releasing information to the public or oppressing/blackmailing (idk what the right word is) citizens with the information they've collected in 10 years from now? What if Google gets hacked in the next 10 years and all our data dumped online to the public by the hackers? There's many reasons why privacy is important.
I hope what you wrote was an actual comment and not just some copypasta that I fell for, lol
Leo Ortiz
Because most of them will sell your info you dipshit. Especially the big ones with servers in many countries, like the one you said you have.
Zachary Jones
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Jeremiah Lee
>everybody has records of my black dick obsession
Is it too late for a VPN Bros does it even matter?
Brayden Russell
Well it boils down to trust again, I do have some general faith in AirVPN, but that's everyone's personal opinion, unless you have some evidence that they are actually selling info.
If you can recommend a better VPN service and/or give me some directions as to which country I should connect to, I would highly appreciate that.
What the government wants is power. They want to know as much as possible about every single citizen, to have *control* over them and their lives. If we keep feeding the government and the NSA by not conducting privacy practices, the world will go in a very bad direction. Remember ACTA? If citizens wouldn't have spoken up and made a huge protest about it, everything we do nowadays would be under constant surveillance by cameras everywhere. Things like YouTube wouldn't exist anymore.
If we don't fight back, if we don't break out of the botnet, if we don't protest, then the government, Microsoft and Google will just keep invading our privacy more and more, until privacy becomes non-existent and something we could only dream of.
If you truly think that you have absolutely zero things to hide, you are lying to yourself.
t. net neutrality supporter who wants to give the government even more oversight
Nicholas Wright
VPS providers log everything mandatory because there are some beefy projects hosted on their servers.
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Whenever some shit tries to go for one of my accounts it's from Romania, so Romania
Grayson Taylor
kek
Elijah Williams
You are already sticking out by using shit ton of addons (normies use adblock or nothing) and trying to prevent "tracking" by blocking all obscure javascripts, the websites will simply tag you while getting enough info about you even without enabled javascript (css fingerprints, language fingerprint, ping, attention span per page and so on).
Chase Richardson
Sadly that only applies to the court of law. The court of public opinion doesn't really care if you're innocent or not. If you're accused, you may as well be guilty.
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Jayden Green
That may be true, however at least that way I can block the most common fingerprinting techniques. The techniques you've mentioned are (afaik) less common, I've never even heard about CSS fingerprinting and how that would be possible without JS enabled.
Lincoln Richardson
there is css function to determine window width, so the page would fit in it
Julian Parker
Interesting, but would it actually be able to send that information back to the server, without access to JavaScript? I'm not much of a webdev myself, therefore sorry for my cluelessness.
