The new Mega VPN: it logs your IP-Address and the IP Address assigned to you

Mega, “The privacy company”, launched a new VPN service.
While they claim on the home page for their VPN that “Your privacy is our priority”, their Terms of services ( MEGA VPN Terms of Service ) states that they log your IP-Address and the IP Address assigned to you

MEGA will collect and retain the following information concerning your use of the MEGA VPN:

  1. IP addresses (both originating IP addresses and assigned VPN server IP addresses) and port information;
  2. Times and dates of connection and access

The apps are also not open-source, but I just wanted to post this for any people googling how good Mega VPN is.

Take care!

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people need to ditch these garbo vpns and just stick with tried and true tor

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What a Joke of a VPN. :laughing:

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whats the point of them making a vpn then? its totally useless

At least they’re being honest.

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For the low price, it’s a good solution for basic cases of untrusted networks, such as coffee shops or the public office wifi at work to keep traffic out of the boss’s view.

I don’t need to pay for a vpn service where servers that don’t log and that get destroyed every 24 hours. Yet.

It is not a good solution for anything. Privacy is worth more than that, Mullvad is affordable as well, and it is a far better choice than surveillance VPN.

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For US$1/month for Mega, and €5/month for Mullvad, that’s a large difference and may not be affordable for a lot of people.

We may have differing opinions on this, and most people aren’t in need of a super private VPN solution with it’s costs for basic surfing on untrusted networks.

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There are even free VPNs like Warp and Proton that you can use if you only want to use them for public Wifi occasionally.

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fwiw Warp iirc discloses your IP to websites paying for Cloudflare enterprise and Proton guest mode only works in the Google Play version not the GitHub or F-Droid version.

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This is no longer the case.

Warp hides your IP and is even used by Microsoft Edge as a limited free VPN now.

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