Without revealing too much private information about them or their situations, I have some low-income friends who would benefit from using a VPN service. The few trustworthy free VPN services are too limited for what they’re looking for, but ProtonVPN, Mullvad, and IVPN are all a bit too pricey for …

[image] anon48875053: Proton Unlimited subscription for the same monthly price as Mullvad, 5 euros. Mullvad, IVPN, and Proton VPN are highly profitable, that’s why Mullvad had this 5 euro per month price for over a decade without needing to raise it. I highly doubt they are “highly profitable…

[image] anon48875053: I have Proton Unlimited subscription for the same monthly price as Mullvad, 5 euros. How did you get this?

[image] moonwriting: How did you get this? IIRC that is the temporary discounted student price

[image] fria: A DNS resolver isn’t going to change your IP address. There are several projects that (ab)use the DNS question / answer mechanism to hide client IPs. It isn’t a fool-proof solution, but works for most HTTP and HTTPS (1 & 2) traffic. Limited to TCP but is relatively easier to bui…

Very interesting thanks for sharing.

[image] anon80779245: You can torrent using ProtonVPN, but P2P isn’t officially supported. I’m not too sure what you mean. Are you saying that Proton only advertises that BitTorrent (or P2P in general) is only available on their paid plans, but that they don’t actually block it on their free …

Windscribe is having a sale of $39/year ($3.25/month) if you can pay for a year: https://x.com/windscribecom/status/1835720238760931758

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Well it’s similar to proton, they have a free and a paid version.

Cheaper VPN service recommendations?

Questions

ignoramous September 14, 2024, 8:06pm 36

Public VPNs are widely thought to be profitable ventures (especially for those that can consolidate lead with slick marketing) with ~60%+ profit margins. Some analysts project Public VPN industry’s CAGR (compound growth rate) at ~23% (7x growth in the next 10 years).

Ex: https://medium.com/@kolpolok/pros-and-cons-of-vpn-business-72db86b20325 (mirror).

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