I have had PIA for years on desktop and mobile with firefox and it’s been fine. Any reason I should consider switching, or is it still generally good for privacy?
I occasionally torrent. But I’d like to browse and post politically sensitive content safely. Here on Lemmy, but also other non federated places.
Thanks
Good enough to keep your ISP at bay.
Good enough to keep you from getting on a list from passive checking.
Not good enough to stop a state agency that wants to go after you legally.
They do support port forwarding which makes torrenting much nicer.
I still have it for torrenting purposes only; it works and works well. Can’t speak to any more than that.
Be careful it’s owned by an Israeli company that also owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, and Zenmate - Kape technologies
Found that it is a UK based society where did you find that it was Israeli?
Ah, that’s good to know. Thanks.
I’m very happy with the Mullvad VPN. The Tor Browser is great, too.
Never was. But is a good option to hide your torrents from your ISP
Kind of useless if you’re not gonna explain why.
Basically any cheap VPN is good for torrenting as we don’t need complete anonymity but more of a proxy like connection, to not receive letters from ISPs telling us our use of internet
Genuinely curious, what makes a VPN not completely anonymous? Are you talking browser cookies and fingerprinting?
No. I bought it and it was pushing my internet speed down by half with all options tried, it would also gradually slow further. I switched back to express, it’s no hassle at all, ever.
There are 4 privacy respecting VPNs out there: Mullvad, Proton VPN, IVPN, Windscribe. As for my opinion I have been using Windscribe for years now and it’s been great but I have a specific use case for a VPN so I need one regardless of the privacy aspect. My point is if you want a VPN just for the hypothetical privacy gains in my opinion you’re wasting time and money.
Proton said they wouldn’t give up the IP address of their mail users either until they did.
I have no issues with the other three.
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