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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My subrsiption with surfshark is ending soon and I was wondering if there was something better around the same price. There are a lot of ads about many VPNs but a lot of them don't look so "safe and private" as they want you to think so it's hard to really figure it out. I don't want to spend too much since I don't use them very often but I kinda like the "change catalog of netflix" thing and to be safe while doing some """""""shady"""""" stuff

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With VPNS i usually vouch for two services: Mullvad and Proton.

Mullvad is a no-bullshit VPN as described before, it just works and it's cheap as hell. It'll let you do your netflix hopping, but for any skullduggery I believe they're killing their port forwarding, so I wouldn't really recommend it for that front. You'd be better off subscribing to a usenet index for that and then using mullvad on the side instead of ARRing.

Proton is amazing but only truly worth it if you're using the suite-- Emails, drive, VPN, the whole 9 yards. It's a bit costly but no one does it like them. They also have a solid free tier for the VPN if you'd like to try them. And they do port forwarding (as of this comment).

Haven't tried expressVPN but I've heard lots of good things about their audits. I'd feel comfortable with them but I can't give any pointers.

TL:DR: Mullvad for simplicity and price, Proton for features & using their Suite, something like Express for something that just does VPN and nothing else.

I steer clear of Nord & Surfshark for personal reasons. VPNS that do too much sponsor marketing outside of network/privacy communities strike me as suspicious IMO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup I got the whole Proton suit mainly for email and calendar, but use the rest too for specific use-cases.

I also like that Proton has a few VPN servers with adblocker and tracking blocking built in, so you can use the default DNS and have the same settings as other users which helps with avoiding fingerprinting while still having an easy system wide adblocker and tracking blocker.