My subscription with my current provider is running out in a couple days and I was considering giving this provider’s service a try. The only thing is I’ve literally never heard anyone speak about them, good or bad. They seem to be small time, which doesn’t bother me. In fact, I’m thinking if they are somewhat unpopular by comparison to providers like Mullvad, that means their IP’s are less blocked. They check a lot of good boxes as well. You can buy over Tor, you can use Monero, they use the chad Wireguard instead of bloated OpenVPN, etc. They also don’t do affiliates, which I consider a good thing. My only concern is I’ve literally not seen one user review anywhere. I’m mostly concerned about purchasing it and finding out their servers are slow. If anybody has experience with them I’d like to here about it, thanks!
Up to you but…VPNs are like the wild west. I would go with one of the proven privacy respecting VPNs out there. Its really easy for a company to say all the right things on their website.
This is true, but I should state on the outset, privacy isn’t my primary reason for using a VPN. I mostly use them for their encrypted DNS and anti-malware and anti-porn filters, but also I enjoy the geo spoofing because I can get cheaper deals when I order stuff. I have, in the past, also torrented with them, but I mostly use i2p for that. They do allow you to buy over an onion link and pay with monero, they also seem to donate to many privacy projects, like Tor, i2p, Yggdrasil, etc. So they seem involved in privacy activism. I am unsure about their security audit situation, which may be a concern (if it doesn’t exist). But It’s really hard to trust any VPN service until the ultimate “audit” occurs…and by that I mean feds seizing servers to try and recover account information or IP logs, lol.
Thanks for your input Parish. I think I’ll probably just reup my Mullvad subscription. I’ve got nothing inherently against them, I just noticed some sites had Mullvad’s IPs blocked. I was wondering if a lesser known VPN may have better results. Incognet seems relatively cheap, so I may get a sub on them too, and if I do I’ll be sure to leave a review here for them. Of course I can’t review them in terms of privacy as I have no idea what they’re doing. I’m talking strictly reviewing speed, connection stability, are their IP’s blocked, etc.
You could try Proton vpn, they have quite some deals in this moment and a lot of servers.
I’ll check them out, thanks. I use to use their email service several years ago. It was fine, no complaints. I only left because I went a extended period of time without signing in and they must have a policy about inactive accounts because my account was closed. It should go without saying my account plan was the free tier. They didn’t close on an account I paid for.