All of the main and non-mainstream VPN providers (Nord, ProtonVPN, PIA, Tor network etc), how sure can you be that they dont sell or keep log info of you? Is there any way you can be absolutely certain that they do not keep your log info/data and so on? Even if you pay or not, I strongly suspect there are no one that can actually keep your data completely ‘safe’ and private.
I think Proton is best right now - Nord has really seen a lot of degradation over the last few months and I’m pretty sure they don’t log or sell your data.
I’m certain because they follow swiss privacy standards which are pretty reliable IMO. It’s your call but you still might want to check out this offer on their website. If anything else doesn’t, the discount will prolly sway you to Proton.
NordVPN is reliable - they don’t sell your data. And yeah, we don’t trust their own word but there are third-party auditors that say so. So we can count on that.
And since we are on the topic, you would like to check out this discount. I got my NordVPN subscription through this and it has been one of the best VPN purchases I’ve made to date.
best trustworty VPNs for real:
- tunnelbear
- mullvad
- torguard
- windscribe
i’ve tried them all and tunnelbear is by far my favorite. I don’t have issues with it not working or it causing google not to work. It’s also got a cool UI where a bear will tunnel around. Also tried stuff like expressvpn and cyberghost but they were more spotty and sometimes google would show a captcha when they were on
You can trust court-proven no log VPNs such as the ones on this list.
You can probaby find a few more on Google. These are just a few ones.
actually keep your data completely ‘safe’ and private.
That ceases to be private and secure as soon as your traffic leaves the VPN servers. Governments and large ISPs can see all ends of your traffic without bothering the VPN Service at all, if they want to.
My take on using a VPN is it is useless against most governments and knowledgeable, dedicated, black hat’s but provides a pretty good safe space otherwise. In choosing a VPN provider you gotta put your trust somewhere, it is your choice. After researching the matter I chose ProtonVPN in the belief that they are who they say they are and do what they advertise and what I pay them to do. There is a chance I am wrong in that belief, I hope not.
I just signed up for 6 months of BadcatVPN
I have been running some speed tests and IPLeak tests.
Performance is great. Provides secure tunneling for hidden dns. Masked my all address. Tested in UK and USA now and have had great luck. Joined the discord and reached out to the founder. He’s a hacker type and has coded in a ton of functions that delete logs regularly and keep the servers wiped clean.
My friend in china was not able to get it working. But from what I hear that’s hard for a lot of providers
Tor network
Not a VPN and you don’t need to trust it by its design.
You can not 100% make sure about that.
But choose a VPN which is not a registered company or at least registered in offshore area.
Windscribe, Mullvad and AirVPN.
They can’t, at least the ones you listed except Tor. Nord was hacked once and tried to cover it up. It also has other security flaws in the past. The reason why it’s listed so high in VPN review sites is because they are the one who pays the most amount of money. Proton is also suspicious because they were involved with Tesonet which is a data mining operation. They claimed that one of their employees accidentally signed it with the wrong signature which seems suspicious. Their co company has been in a bunch of police cases in the past due illegal activity. Tor in the other hand is secure if you use it the right way. Myself I use Mullvad because I find it to be the fastest and the most privacy focused one. I’d suggest you to try one of the following; Mullvad, TorGuard, AirVPN and ExpressVPN. I’ve tested a bunch of VPNs in the past and these ones turned out the best and they are trustworthy companies unlike Nord and Proton.
Edit: Forgot to mention PIA, they were trustworthy in the past but they recently got purchased by Kape who owns Cyberghost. They are definitely not a trustworthy company due to their past. Sad to see PIA go…
was ipvanish any good?
Proton’s owner just did a very public pick me knee bend trying to curry favor with an American president. Dramatically lowers confidence for many that he can’t be bought or compelled to breach privacy. The last thing your opsec wants is your privacy provider getting chummy with government officials; if a government has access, so do hackers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1i2r2sv/why_was_the_founder_and_ceo_of_proton_tweeting/
This absolutely feels like an ad. That got me to buy 2 years of VPN. x_x
I was already using it, and looked into the source. CNET has an article that Delloite, is one of the companies that did the audit.
These are both reputable companies…good enough for me.
Ive been using WebSecureNow for months its safe and trusted.
Just like to point out that PIA is on the list and Kape buying them might change things in the future/already since the only proof are 2 cases from 2016 and 2018.
" guarantees that all information on a server is wiped every time it is powered off and on again. "
This one is for ExpressVPN, but are servers ever powered off (or maybe once every eons)? or am I missing something? A company located on the British Virgin Island is not reliable in my view, given UK gov is very surveillance orientated.
Pia? Express? Nord? What kind of shill list is this?
I thought that would be the case. Maybe abit off here as I am unfamiliar with computeromics in general, but how then do hackers (black/white) avoid being spotted when doing shady stuff? Is that like a whole new level of ‘VPNing’? How do they cover their tracks/IPs?