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RustyShackleford @literature.cafe

2w ago

Looking for a good VPN for 2025, any recommendations?

Would be moving from Mullvad, would appreciate opinions on the current landscape of VPN’s from those who keep a better eye out. TIA.

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I was going to recommend the one your moving from. Ha
What are your requirements?
- Same. Mullvad #1.
  Unless you need port forwarding, then Proton for those activities.
- Haha Open to staying, just looking since it’s time to check the landscape out if anything’s changed. My friend has Proton VPN, but so many options these days.
  
  Well some less than impressive news about the Proton CEO came out pretty recently. I'm a current user and thinking hard about switching to something else.
  Lemme go find a link. Here we go, I went down this thread last night:
  https://lemmy.ca/post/37218429
  
  But what is wrong with Mullvad that your leaving it?
  https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/
  A comparison from a group who matches my style of crazy.

I would use Mullvad
- Alright, I guess I’ll stay where I am for now. My main concerns were streaming and privacy.
  
  What's wrong with Mullvad for streaming and privacy? They have fast server speeds, and their hardware can't physically log user activity.
- What’s going on with mullvad ? So many recommendations, isn’t it just another provider with shady background ?
  
  No account creation, you can pay in bitcoin or mail them cash in an envelope if you want, and you can establish the VPN connection using standard free and open source software
  
  What shady background?

Some time ago I would have recommended Mullvad and Proton, but after Proton's CEO publicly mentioned Trump favorably in some way I'd say just use Mullvad.

MullvadVPN.

Mullvad seems to be consistently good. I've been on it for +5 years. Before I used PIA but they got sold to a sketchy company.

AirVPN is great and has port forwarding.

I still think Mulvad is the best that there is at the moment. There's Proton, which shouldn't be too bad. I wouldn't trust anything else, to be honest.
Edit: Depending on your requirements and technical know-how, then perhaps buying a private VPS and running tail scale could also be an option.

I like airvpn. Ran 24/7 for over a year without issue.
- How are the speeds?

I highly suggest Windscribe. They're independent, tested safe, good prices, and good speeds. Been a paying customer for years and had few issues
- Even better, you can get their VPN for like $1/month if you choose the 'build your own plan'. Supports Wireguard as well. Been a happy sailing customer for 5+ years with no incidences, and they saturate my symmetrical gigabit connection with ease.

MullvadVPN, it doesn't share info and you give it the least amount possible

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I really love IVPN but I feel it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
I also cache the hell out of DNS myself (along with crazy strict blocking) which makes it much snappier than just going the default way.
You can squeeze out more performance out of their IPv6 (which is strange since the endpoints themselves don’t support IPv6), IPv4 seems a bit slower.

!privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I was recommended Proton a couple years ago (pre-Lemmy) by some reddit tech/piracy forum. I've continued to subscribe it without scrutiny or vigilance. and uhh it's fine? works great? it's a VPN. i can download star trek without prison time. I never game on it though
- but proton bad.

Nobody is mentioning PIA... Am I missing something that makes them a non-ideal option?
- Bought by an Israeli firm:
  https://hackread.com/private-internet-access-pia-vpn-sold-israel-privacy-concerns/
- Several years ago, they were bought by Kape (formerly Crossrider), which is a company that started off making malware (browser toolbars that bundled unwanted software and other advertising software). I jumped from PIA to Proton once I found out. I'm paying more, but I can trust Proton more. They're not a malware company, after all.
  
  Hey, each and every one of those toolbars was necessary and useful!

I use AirVPN, no complaints about it from my part but also don't use it much.

I personally use AirVPN but it's unfortunately very slow when using as Tailscale exit node
- Why use it as a Tailscale exit node?
  
  I use Tailscale to access my home server, however I also want to use a VPN but that means losing my connection to my home server.

Proton VPN
- Proton is sucking trumps chode these days

I use Nord. No one here has mentioned Nord. Is it shit?
- They have a pretty bad rep in terms of privacy from what I have seen
  
  Dang, I wasn't aware of that. Well, I'll ditch them once my subscription expires for sure.
- if they put so much money into influencers, youtubers etc I am already turned off. shouldn't they lower prices, pay better wages or expand infrastructure instead of giving money to pewdiepie?

torguard

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