← Back to context Comment by MikusR 3 years ago Pia has port forwarding and is half the price of mullvad 3 comments MikusR Reply serf 3 years ago Many Mullvad customers migrated from there to Mullvad in the first place after Kape Tech bought them.Kape Tech , at the time, had a less than stellar reputation. I haven't followed it much since that time. commoner 3 years ago Private Internet Access stopped releasing source code for recent versions of its clients.Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35642700These days, free and open source software clients are table stakes for a VPN to be considered trustworthy. The fact that PIA silently stopped releasing source code after previously promising to do so is a major red flag. SparkyMcUnicorn 3 years ago You don't need to use their client. Just grab a config and use an OpenVPN or WireGuard client instead.PIA official repo: https://github.com/pia-foss/manual-connectionshttps://helpdesk.privateinternetaccess.com/guides/linux/linu...
serf 3 years ago Many Mullvad customers migrated from there to Mullvad in the first place after Kape Tech bought them.Kape Tech , at the time, had a less than stellar reputation. I haven't followed it much since that time.
commoner 3 years ago Private Internet Access stopped releasing source code for recent versions of its clients.Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35642700These days, free and open source software clients are table stakes for a VPN to be considered trustworthy. The fact that PIA silently stopped releasing source code after previously promising to do so is a major red flag. SparkyMcUnicorn 3 years ago You don't need to use their client. Just grab a config and use an OpenVPN or WireGuard client instead.PIA official repo: https://github.com/pia-foss/manual-connectionshttps://helpdesk.privateinternetaccess.com/guides/linux/linu...
SparkyMcUnicorn 3 years ago You don't need to use their client. Just grab a config and use an OpenVPN or WireGuard client instead.PIA official repo: https://github.com/pia-foss/manual-connectionshttps://helpdesk.privateinternetaccess.com/guides/linux/linu...
Many Mullvad customers migrated from there to Mullvad in the first place after Kape Tech bought them.
Kape Tech , at the time, had a less than stellar reputation. I haven't followed it much since that time.
Private Internet Access stopped releasing source code for recent versions of its clients.
Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35642700
These days, free and open source software clients are table stakes for a VPN to be considered trustworthy. The fact that PIA silently stopped releasing source code after previously promising to do so is a major red flag.
You don't need to use their client. Just grab a config and use an OpenVPN or WireGuard client instead.
PIA official repo: https://github.com/pia-foss/manual-connections
https://helpdesk.privateinternetaccess.com/guides/linux/linu...