Guys, I think it's been time for a while now, we should all really start using VPNs. Even though they might not be the most effective at times and data can still be spied on in other ways, it's better than using nothing.
I've been looking for a decent VPN provider for a while now but almost all of them seem to fall into the jurisdiction of the 5/9/14 eyes countries, keep logs, or just seem like shady Jews altogether.
I've used PrivateInternetAccess in the past but that seems to have gone to shit now too.
What are you guys using and more importantly, why?
Eh. I'm hoping for something that is free...though I assume that nobody is interested in offering their services for free.
Lincoln Jones
open proxies when fucking around, same level of privacy as a vpn but for free. openvpn server at home for connecting from public networks.
Nathan Watson
>we should all really start using VPNs but why
i don't live in a country with data caps/copyright retardation and no freedom
Thomas Perry
VPNs are a decent way to increase privacy. They don't improve security though. Against a government entity they're paper bags, but against an entity that can only look, a paper bag over the window helps a lot.
Free VPNs are worse than hitler. They're free in the same way a bed in a concentration camp is free.
Ethan Jackson
Buy a VPS and set up shadowsocks/openvpn. Its cheap ~5$, its fast >100mbit, it have 10-50gb or even few tb of storage, it have somewhat clean static ip (you won't get banned as "VPN user" and won't have problems with authorizations). Its stealthy (you less likely will be flagged as potential pedo/terrorist/threat to the regime by ISP or government.
Adam Peterson
Protip: If you start using a VPN you can never EVER do anything that you did before you used the VPN or else it provides zero security for you. If you go back to the same websites, if you track down the same torrents, if you visit anything that you've ever visited before boom, you're busted, and your "anonymity" and security fly right out the fucking window.
If you get a VPN service you can never ever EVER do anything you've done before, you'd have to clean install your OS (won't really matter since unless you change the MAC on your network interfaces once again it can be traced back to you from previous non-VPN connections), and so on.
You can never ever EVER use the same software, the same browser, anything at all.
Because of this, all you idiots using VPNs are not safe, you're not secure, and you can be found out no matter what you're doing.
>stupid fucking people will be the death of us all
Ryan Martinez
then what do
Nolan Cook
Not him, but nothing. Online anonymity is a meme
Cooper Hall
>I can't defeat the british empire so I shouldn't even try
Jonathan Kelly
>I spend the rest of my life hitting the NSA with a toothpick
SURRENDER NOW
Eli Hill
fixed it for you
Jeremiah Johnson
This I have no reason to use a proxy that spies me to go on the internet
^^^^ Use that on literally any Linux vps and roll your own VPN. Currently using Vultr for $2.50 a month
Andrew Bell
the downside with this is that the VPS provider may (probably so) log traffic
Austin Kelly
This link is god tier thanks for reposting it.
well yeah out in the open is a clear method because vpns just enhance the barbara streisand effect of being anonymous just identifies you more ironically so the point he made is that from start to finish it has to be comprehensive and cloaked, you're always going to leave a trace
also make sure you use dnscrypt, dnssec optional when needed
Aiden Sanchez
All of them keep logs. They're lying if the say they don't.
Nolan Reed
...Use the text option of paint, user.
Liam Wright
Im gonna buy a rasperry p and make my own vpn. Not so much I can do.
Ryan Ross
How many VPN thread are we going to open?
Carter Robinson
God bless America.
Ayden Foster
this guy is batshit insane and this is coming from someone who is legit diagnosed with paranoia
Luis Allen
batshit retarded*
Elijah Lee
Doesn't that link you to your traffic though, since you'll be the only one using the vps?
