Is private Internet access (PIA) still a good privacy option,
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I have had PIA for years on desktop and mobile with firefox and it's been fine. Any reason I should consider switching, or is it still generally good for privacy?
I occasionally torrent. But I'd like to browse and post politically sensitive content safely. Here on Lemmy, but also other non federated places.
Thanks
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I have had PIA for years on desktop and mobile with firefox and it's been fine. Any reason I should consider switching, or is it still generally good for privacy?
I occasionally torrent. But I'd like to browse and post politically sensitive content safely. Here on Lemmy, but also other non federated places.
Thanks
Be careful it’s owned by an Israeli company that also owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, and Zenmate by Kape technologies
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I have had PIA for years on desktop and mobile with firefox and it's been fine. Any reason I should consider switching, or is it still generally good for privacy?
I occasionally torrent. But I'd like to browse and post politically sensitive content safely. Here on Lemmy, but also other non federated places.
Thanks
I'm very happy with the Mullvad VPN. The Tor Browser is great, too.
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I have had PIA for years on desktop and mobile with firefox and it's been fine. Any reason I should consider switching, or is it still generally good for privacy?
I occasionally torrent. But I'd like to browse and post politically sensitive content safely. Here on Lemmy, but also other non federated places.
Thanks
Never was.
But is a good option to hide your torrents from your ISP -
Be careful it’s owned by an Israeli company that also owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, and Zenmate by Kape technologies
Ah, that's good to know. Thanks.
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Never was.
But is a good option to hide your torrents from your ISPKind of useless if you're not gonna explain why.
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Kind of useless if you're not gonna explain why.
Basically any cheap VPN is good for torrenting as we don't need complete anonymity but more of a proxy like connection, to not receive letters from ISPs telling us our use of internet
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Be careful it’s owned by an Israeli company that also owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, and Zenmate by Kape technologies
Found that it is a UK based society where did you find that it was Israeli?
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Found that it is a UK based society where did you find that it was Israeli?
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I have had PIA for years on desktop and mobile with firefox and it's been fine. Any reason I should consider switching, or is it still generally good for privacy?
I occasionally torrent. But I'd like to browse and post politically sensitive content safely. Here on Lemmy, but also other non federated places.
Thanks
There are 4 privacy respecting VPNs out there: Mullvad, Proton VPN, IVPN, Windscribe. As for my opinion I have been using Windscribe for years now and it's been great but I have a specific use case for a VPN so I need one regardless of the privacy aspect. My point is if you want a VPN just for the hypothetical privacy gains in my opinion you're wasting time and money.
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Basically any cheap VPN is good for torrenting as we don't need complete anonymity but more of a proxy like connection, to not receive letters from ISPs telling us our use of internet
Genuinely curious, what makes a VPN not completely anonymous? Are you talking browser cookies and fingerprinting?
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I have had PIA for years on desktop and mobile with firefox and it's been fine. Any reason I should consider switching, or is it still generally good for privacy?
I occasionally torrent. But I'd like to browse and post politically sensitive content safely. Here on Lemmy, but also other non federated places.
Thanks
No. I bought it and it was pushing my internet speed down by half with all options tried, it would also gradually slow further. I switched back to express, it's no hassle at all, ever.
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Genuinely curious, what makes a VPN not completely anonymous? Are you talking browser cookies and fingerprinting?
In any case a VPN is not anonymous but more private than without. Only some can be used as real privacy voucher (for example Mullvad, iVPN (and maybe proton...)), other are great for torrenting but in any case for privacy, they are not really transparent upon their security + surely friend with most of the intelligence agencies
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I have had PIA for years on desktop and mobile with firefox and it's been fine. Any reason I should consider switching, or is it still generally good for privacy?
I occasionally torrent. But I'd like to browse and post politically sensitive content safely. Here on Lemmy, but also other non federated places.
Thanks
I still have it for torrenting purposes only; it works and works well. Can’t speak to any more than that.
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There are 4 privacy respecting VPNs out there: Mullvad, Proton VPN, IVPN, Windscribe. As for my opinion I have been using Windscribe for years now and it's been great but I have a specific use case for a VPN so I need one regardless of the privacy aspect. My point is if you want a VPN just for the hypothetical privacy gains in my opinion you're wasting time and money.
Proton said they wouldn't give up the IP address of their mail users either until they did.
I have no issues with the other three.
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I have had PIA for years on desktop and mobile with firefox and it's been fine. Any reason I should consider switching, or is it still generally good for privacy?
I occasionally torrent. But I'd like to browse and post politically sensitive content safely. Here on Lemmy, but also other non federated places.
Thanks
Good enough to keep your ISP at bay.
Good enough to keep you from getting on a list from passive checking.
Not good enough to stop a state agency that wants to go after you legally.
They do support port forwarding which makes warranting much nicer.
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