X-VPN, I pay 68 pounds per year for it
It says in OP’s post that they ‘have ties with or are related to Russia’.
Also I’ve read that it’s often best to get a paid VPN to guarantee safety, is that always the case or are there any reliable free alternatives that people should consider?
NordVPN is great. Works wonders with your phone, super reliable speed, has the most servers to choose from out of all VPN:s IIRC and you get 6(?) users (3 pc, 3 phone or 1 pc 5 phones and so on.
I paid a one-time fee for 2 years, now I use it on 2 computers, on my phone, girlfriends phone and mothers computer.
Highly recommend!
Ia have nord, as a US based person it’s treated me very well. Very easy to integrate into phone etc.
HQed out of panama and is able to bypass chinese firewall in some cases. Is able in theoretically to bypass the 14eyes agreement
And how does it make them unsafe?
There’re a lot of foreign services (not only VPN) who refuse to work with Russians or to accept payments from Russia. So any foreign company is event less safe.
It means the company is located there, and therefore is or isn’t forced to have any user logs. As far as I know (check my words!), Lithuania and Sweden don’t oblige to keep logs of your actions on their servers.
I’ve heard this phrase somewhere : As a VPN customer, you either pay for premium VPN service with your dollars, or you pay for free services with your data.
Also most of IPs of free VPNs are over abused and flagged, which means you won’t be able bypass censorships and so on.
When it is free, you are the product.
But pretty safe compared to business operated VPNs that somewhat have to work with the governments
People who haven’t used Freenet and I2P can’t fathom what “slow as hell” is.
Would it not be implicit from the potential for user logs to be stored and used against Russian citizens in the current climate of censorship, most notably given the recent legislation threatening up to 15 years in prison for spreading ‘fakes’ about the Russian military’s actions in Ukraine?
Just makes them more likely to have a back door built in that means traffic could still be monitored while giving the illusion you are anonymous.
Ahh I see, thanks very much for the reply!
Ahh I see, thanks v. much for the info. and reply! Yeah that’s definitely something to keep in mind
Well, I meant that it’s easy, automatic etc.
The internet has gotten significantly more bloated over time
Public VPN is essentially a FU to any government.
Well, then somebody should make a “resistance-friendly” social network, LOL. Usable with NetSurf and Tor/I2P speeds, accessible over both and exposing NNTP to use with a newsreader.