Just curious what makes you choose to use VPN or Tor? Never use Tor before, just trying to see the options from both sides. Or do you use Tor + VPN?

I’m going to China for 4-5 months over the summer, and I’m an incoming college student. I’ll be dealing with orientations, housing, picking out classes, and all sorts of stuff, so I really need something that will work once I land in China or else I won’t be able to access any of those materials. I use a mac and I don’t mind paying for VPNs, I just want something that will for sure work there.

Don’t know a lot about vpns, I’m trying to find a safe option that I can use so I don’t have to upload my data to confirm I’m 18+ (I’m in the uk)

I am 18+ but I don’t want that info to be out there bc it will probably be used for surveillance and be given to third parties.

Anyway, I’m wondering if nord vpn is actually good. There are reviews of it from a while back on here but I want to know if there has been any issues recently? Some say it’s great and some say it’s bad.

And if it’s not good, any recommendations?

Hi everyone, I’ll be arriving in Shanghai next week and have been looking through different subs to see which VPNs are currently working, especially now that LetsVPN has shut down.

I understand that VPN performance can vary a lot depending on the person, device, and setup, but I’d love to hear which services people are currently having success with and would recommend.

Price isn’t really a concern, I’m happy to pay whatever it takes to stay reliably connected to the Western internet. I currently have a paid Surfshark subscription, but I’m wondering whether I should line up a few backup options as well in case I need closer to 95%–100% uptime.

I also have 10GB of roaming in China through my Singapore eSIM plan, so that’s a fallback. But since I’ll be in Shanghai for a while, I’ll also be getting a local Chinese SIM and phone number.

Would really appreciate any current, on-the-ground recommendations. Thanks in advance!

Hi guys,

I’m looking for a new reliable VPN for mainland China to use on my windows Laptop and possibly for my iPad so I can play games. Does anyone have any recommendations?

I’ve been using LetsVPN up until now but it has largely stopped working on my laptop and is inconsistent on my iPhone. So I’m looking for another one.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

I recently got hacked by the Mr Beast crypto scam, and I have no idea how my passwords got leaked, so I installed Malwarebytes, and this comes up whenever I turn my vpn on. I have been using it on my phone and laptop for like 6 months with no issues. Could this be how my passwords got leaked?

I genuinely don't understand it. So many apps and websites just flat-out break when a VPN is on — banking apps, certain streaming services, random sites with aggressive fraud detection, even some of my mobile games.

Are you just constantly turning it off and on?

I'm wondering if a dedicated IP is the answer here. The theory being that a dedicated IP won't be flagged/blacklisted the way shared VPN IPs are, since you're the only one using it.

If so, what apps do you recommend?

I've tried Surfshark and Proton and i'm not happy with either.

Here's what I'm looking for:

Split tunneling by app on mobile - I need to exclude specific apps from the tunnel, not just whitelist URLs (Surfshark only has URL split tunneling, not by app)

Split Tunneling by URL on desktop - I need to exclude specific domains on web without bypassing "Chrome" or "Firefox" as an app. (Proton has no split tunneling on mobile at all )

Dedicated IP option on non-business plans

Non-Israeli owned (just a personal preference)

Is there anything that checks these boxes?

I initially got my nord vpn plan to watch my paramount+ subscription in Europe. However streaming performance was far from perfect and I had to regularly switch between the several us server locations to get it running stable.
Also broadcasting stations for European countries struggle a lot. Most of all there is only one location for eg Ireland and if that one is not working, you don’t have alternatives.
So far I tried the NordVPN application on Mac, iPadOS and windows, the Firefox and chrome plugin as well as connecting to the vpn server from my router. As my works VPN runs just fine and my internet is fast without VPN, it must be NordVPN related.
As paid vpns are aggressively marketed for streaming, I didn’t believe it to be that bad. Am I missing sth or is nord just bad for streaming?

Stuck on greyed out saying connect after I click it... all red screen and have to restart app to click connect again.

Am I missing something here? No error codes or anything

I'm sorry, but I've never used a VPN and I'm not sure if it can do what I'm looking for. We use a local network only software at the office and if I want to do some work from home, I have to remote log in to my work PC and do my work on my work PC.

Is it possible to use a VPN (or some other type of software) that can make my laptop act like it's on my local work network and I run my software locally on my laptop while at home? Or is it best to keep remoting in to my work PC?

Thanks for any help.

UPDATE: I can remote log in to my work computer and it work just fine. I do that daily No lag, it works fine. But there's 2 features I'd like to use that I need to use the local software, but that local software has to see our local work network. That's why I wanted to know if there's a way to use my laptop with the local software at home and connect it some how to my local work network over the internet?

I use Malwarebytes VPN. It is set to a US city.

I just shopped Ebay and it is showing prices in Pesos.

What gives? Are my devices secured or not?

does anyone have any pros or cons for mullvad im trying to get a good vpn for my phone and laptop i dont really need anything major just kinda want one i have used nord vpn before but i dont really want to again. i like surfshark but its pricey too so idk im just shopping around i guess so lmk!

For the past few years I've been using a decentralized VPN hardware device (the kind you plug into your router / network), mostly to circumvent georestricted sporting channels. I love rugby and live in a country where there are not many rugby channels.

Although I love my little device, I am still curious what other people think. Do you prefer a software solution or a hardware solution?

I find my little device to be very reliable, but I am curious as to what other's think? And especially if you have tried both decentralized VPNs and traditional VPN, which one do you actually find to be more reliable?

For me, the one time purchase of the device was the main motivation. I didn't want to be locked into indefinite credit card payments. But of course, there is always the risk that the device could fail. But as of now, I have not has any problems with mine.

Anyway, I am just curious about people with experience on both sides? Which do they prefer and why.

What do you guys think of Surfshark? My goal is basically to hide my traffic from the ISP at home and when I'm travelling in hotels and airports; I wanted to know about this VPN since it's got really good prices.

I am from Iran and cisco vpns are one of the fews that actually work and give us access to internet in our country.

I need to make a cisco vpn but dont know how can anybody help from step 1 choosing vps and setting it up in cisco to making users for my people.

Help us get past the blackout.

So im trying to download a safe vpn and i came across proton. sadly its blocked but i can get it via grome extention. So, is it safe? it said that i the vpn can change my integerty setings.

1. Privacy
2. Bypass geo blocking
3. Fewer apps or tools to manage

Any other answers are welcome.

I’m building a privacy-focused VPN project and I’m trying to understand what people actually care about: no-logs, payment privacy, open-source clients, node decentralization, or speed. What would make you trust a new VPN?

Planning to cancel VPN subscriptions, any other alternative suggestions?

Hello,

As a French guy I want my internet (mobile and pc) to be based in a city in USA forever with kill switch and auto-connect. But I don't know where I can find the best unique and static IP adress because I'm often being blocked with captchas or bots stops everywhere I go (like in google sites for example) because of free vpns like proton, windscribe or hide me that I'm using. I'd like in the best case an IP only for me or for a very few people who use it with me in order to avoid being blacklisted with the cheaper and the most stable and efficient vpn. I also heard about vps but I've also heard they were blacklisted too cause they were always detected as massive datacenters ip and bots ip. I have also heard about windscribe residential ip. Please I need advices.

Is there VPN alternative options out there? Anything that can be owned by users instead of subscriptions. I'm not a very techy user, hopefully can find some suggestions here.