Are VPN good for privacy today, should we used them to protect our privacy?
Not free, none have all advantages and wouldn’t let my ISP only know my traffic so these times I’m really overwhelmed by all of this
Used Tor for a bit but it’s not practically useful, slow (okay but not the main problem) and blocked by a lot of websites…
Maybe a chain of VPN could be good? I really don’t know, can you help me?
Basically I don’t want to have no protection but don’t think VPNs are really the solution…
PS: maybe a rented machine with self hosted like VPN could be good?
Maybe Orbot for phones and Carburetor for the desktop. But Proton VPN is pretty good if you ignore the drama around the company.
As some have stated depends on treat model. I personally use Mullvad for both pirating and accesing restricted sites in my country and evading shity laws. 5€ 5 devices with no bottleneck it’s pretty good. Sometime I use tor when I try to reach a site that the WiFi provider has blocked
The problem with Mullvad is that there is not port forwarding for seeding stuff
There’s no problem with seeding. There’s actually more uploaded than downloaded
My bad
In my opinion, a VPN is a must-have, especially if you’re self-hosting, especially for a media server.
I use a VPN but you might look into portmaster and their spn. Its a little slow but even using portmaster without the spn you can filter your traffic and simply deny most apps access to the internet
Will look at it
