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In search for a good VPN (self.privacy)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by andylicious1337 to c/[email protected]

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Hi privacy fans :) I've been a lurker in this lemmy-community for a while now and a "fan" of privacy for about 4 years now. Since 4 years, I've been on and of with VPNs. Sometimes I think I dont need one, sometimes I change my mind and start searching for one. The only one I tested (and used) so far, was Mullvad. But now reading about Surfshark, I was wondering, if there might be a better solution or if Mullvad is already the best solution for VPN. What I dont like about Surfshark is, that it is part of North Security and that it is not open-source (or at least I can find any info about that).

I hope you guy and gals have some suggestions or recommendation :)

Edit: wow... thanks for all of your fast replies. Coming from Reddit, I am used to only shitposting. Thanks for all your input. I will look into all the mentioned VPN hosters, thx 👍

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you (think you) need a VPN for?

[–] andylicious1337 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

well mainly to route my traffic trough from my DreamMachine and for when I'm @work on the wifi

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I have no idea what a DreamMachine is (and wikipedia does not help) so here's the long answer :)

If you want a VPN tunnel to your own home, for secure access to your LAN, I'd recommend you look into NetBird and/or TailScale, which at their core are wireguard plus NAT punch-through (you can also run wireguard or openvpn directly, but it may be a pain since you most probably have a dynamic IP and possibly a CGNAT).

If you want to hide your traffic while connecting through networks you don't trust (such as the work one or some cafe's wifi), you can either use NetBird/Tailscale as above and connect though your home (well, assuming you trust your ISP of course) or some third party VPN which connects to their servers (I'd say look into Proton first).

Keep in mind that VPNs actually do very little for your online privacy (ie. it's not like google or facebook can't track or fingerprint you). They do is prevent man-in-the-middle traffic analysis from your ISP (or the admin of whatever LAN you are using), but then the VPN provider can do the exact same things, so... make sure to double-check the privacy guarantees of your VPN provider and compare them with those of your ISP.

[–] andylicious1337 3 points 2 months ago

sorry :) A DreamMaschine is the Firewall from Ubiquity :)

well the thing is, that after reading more into all the option, people gave here, I tougth the same thing. I am basicly only hiding my traffic from my ISP and move the information to another entity 🤷‍♂️ For work this might not make that much sense. All I do there is listen to music and check my back-account so nothing my comoany doesnt already know :D

and at home (after planing my threat model) a VPN does not really make that much sense, since I already use stuff like PiHole and Unbound for my whole network.

but thx for your input, it really made things clearer.

[–] Pantsofmagic 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use proton through my dream machine and it works great.

[–] andylicious1337 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

oh ok, good to know. are you using the paid service or free?

[–] Pantsofmagic 2 points 2 months ago

Paid currently, I use several of their other services as well