What is considered a shady VPN?
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- Aug 22, 2013
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Are you asking for a general overview of what makes a VPN provider shady? Or for specific examples of providers that have acted shady in the past?
- Aug 5, 2012
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A shady VPN could be a provider that use deceiving or obscured means to attract users and make them use or pay for their software in order to take some hidden advantages out of the usage.
VPN providers that violate their own privacy policies are the obvious candidate (HideMyAss, Hotspot Shield, IPVanish, PureVPN). One could also argue that providers who refuse to disclose information about their ownership (ExpressVPN, Surfshark) should be considered shady too.
- Aug 5, 2012
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- Mar 25, 2021
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how does norton vpn do, or they already give all of the information to FBI?
- Aug 22, 2013
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Anything from "The Five Eyes" is deemed to be untrustworthy.how does norton vpn do, or they already give all of the information to FBI?
- Dec 30, 2012
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I dare to ask, so which VPN providers are trustworthy? I switched to KeepVPN and its speed is slow plus some sites become inaccessible to me.
- Dec 30, 2012
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I don't think we can fully trust any VPN provider...Having said that I have used air vpn in the past.I mean even using Tor,the NSA is tracking every search query we make with there high speed servers
Mullvad would be my first choice, assuming you don't plan on using it for accessing foreign media libraries (Netflix, etc.). Their location, ownership and leadership are publicly available, the majority of their software is open source, and they've had their apps, infrastructure and DNS service audited by reputable third-parties. They're also developing a new security architecture that will lessen the need for users to blindly trust their architecture in favour of providing proof of its trustworthiness via cryptography.
TunnelBear or ProtonVPN would be my runners-up. Both have similar transparency chops to Mullvad.
- Aug 21, 2020
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VPNs that offer lifetime licenses. Someone said it beautifully, nobody can provide you Internet anonymity for just $5/month. If they could, ISPs could just offer you a plan to encrypt all of your traffic themselves.
I appreciate your comments. I will review about Mullvad and TunneBear, about ProtonVPN I already have my eye on their services.
- Apr 7, 2016
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I admit I trust Ekspress VPN. I have used it 2 years, and it's fast, and their customer care is good and fast.
Interesting. Unfortunately for me, it does not offer a Linux client. Although of course, there is always the proxy chain option.
