Comment by blitzar
8 days ago
The "VPN use surges in UK" articles are bought and paid for by the VPN industry.
I don't believe it is possible to convince me that VPN's as sold and marketed are anything but a massive scam. Yes, that includes the company that you say is honest.
What do you mean by "scam"? That you pay and that they don't work at all? That they don't bypass the geo restrictions? Because they do.
Perhaps you mean that they are bad value(ripoff vs scam)? Then sure, probably they are. But you're basically paying to not get flagged by cloudfare. Back in the day, you bought a cheap server from OVH or some other lowcost provider, stuck openvpn on it (nowdays wireguard) and you were golden. But now that Cloudfare middle-mans half the internet, it doesn't really work anymore.
You pay the VPN providers for "clean"(ish) IPs so you don't get stuck behind Cloudfare captcha-loops.
I want to believe Mullvad is legit but I'm too old, have read too much and I'm way too cynical
They do what they say on the tin (i.e. not a "massive scam").
If people think they do other things, that's not a "scam", that's people being misinformed about what a VPN is and does. That's on them.
I use Veepn, free version. It works well and costs nothing. I doubt they are extra honest but I fail to see how they are scamming me. Their monetization seems to consist of nagging me to switch to the paid version approx weekly.
...that's a really wild take and I seriously wonder what it means.
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