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Comment by CuriousCosmic

3 years ago

It depends what you want. The chart doesn't really say which are the best, just which are undisputedly shady.

#1 undisputed champion for security, privacy, and anonymity is almost certainly Mullvad. Note however that Mullvad servers tend to get flagged and blocked by services pretty quickly.

Mozilla VPN (which you can turn on easily in Firefox) is just a thin shell around Mullvad. The ease of use could make it worth it for some people but you'll generally be better off just using Mullvad directly.

Windscribe (the publishers of this list) have their own VPN. I can't speak to how good it is but they of course don't list anything bad about themselves.

ProtonVPN is pretty decent (I can get 150mbps up/down on most servers) especially if you already use their email service. This chart links over to a discussion of some allegations made against Proton by a rival VPN company. The TLDR of that discussion was that those allegations don't really hold any water (which is further influenced by the fact all those allegations now run to dead links).

So my personal experience would lead me to say to use Mullvad if you need to be truly and certainly private & anonymous but to use ProtonVPN if you want to be "safe enough" but also still get access to streaming sites, etc

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yegor  3 years ago

This list isn't about "dirt" but rather connections between companies and organizations. Windscribe is independent, and 100% privately owned.

Source: Me, as a co-founder.

If you want dirt on us, you can find it on our blog, written by me. https://blog.windscribe.com/ukrainian-server-seizure-a-comme...

  • CuriousCosmic  3 years ago

    Yeah apologies if it came across as if I was saying anything bad about yall's company.

    I just meant that while your entry didn't list anything seriously concerning about your product, since I'm not familiar with it I can't really speak to whether there were omissions.

  • fifteen1506  3 years ago

    Hi, couldn't find a contact on that specific page.

    FYI I have a strong feeling that either AzireVPN was bought or is expanding to other areas.

    The strongest hint of it was the source code and the organization disappeared from their old Github organization location.

spondylosaurus  3 years ago

Mullvad is my heavy lifter (well worth the monthly fee, even on months when I never actually boot it up), but I've used Windscribe in the past and thought it was pretty decent.

Back then they had a free tier where you could use a certain amount of data free of charge, and "create your own plan" tiers where you could mix and match various features at various prices. They might still have them now.