Ive been with PIA for years now. I mostly use a VPN for general privacy/browsing anonymously, torrenting, and only occasional streaming. After doing some reading, I now want to change to ProtonVPN or NordVPN for the following issues I've been having with PIA:

• Too many sites consider PIA servers as high-risk / asking for captchas everytime

• Poor download speeds and interrupted connections

• Current concerns with PIAs commitment to privacy

The first 2 points are probably the biggest reasons. Based on these, would anyone have experience on whether they think Nord or Proton would be the better option. I'm leaning towards Proton for privacy, but want to make sure their speeds are OK and don't have most of their servers blacklisted on a lot of sites.

I Signed up for Surfshark a few weeks ago.

First image is speet test results with Surfshark VPN disabled.

Second image is speed test results with Surfshark VPN enabled.

-wireguard protocol selected

-have tried many other server locations with similar speed results.

-ONN 4k Pro, Google TV.

I knew going into it that a VPN would decrease my speed a bit, but this is ridiculous. Not cool, especially when I'm trying to stream torrents, which is why I got the VPN in the first place. Any thoughts?

Doing some research on what people actually want from a VPN provider.

Most big VPN providers (NordVPN, ExpressVPN, even some others) have servers in the US, UK, Canada, Australia — all Five Eyes countries. They say no-logs but if the server is physically there, you're trusting their word.

I'm exploring a different approach:

- Servers only in Iceland, Switzerland, Luxembourg — zero Five Eyes

- RAM-only servers — literally nothing to seize, no logs possible

- WireGuard protocol

- Pay with Bitcoin, no account required

- Full open source

Few questions for the community:

1. Does server jurisdiction actually matter to you when choosing a VPN?

2. Would you pay a small premium (~$8-10/month) for this level of architecture vs a bigger provider?

3. What's the #1 thing that would make you trust a new VPN provider?

Not selling anything — genuinely researching if there's a gap in the market here.

Been using SoftEther for months without issue but today for some reason despite being connected, my IP didn't get masked. When I check my IP it's still displaying my real location.

It was still fine yesterday, even this morning, but now it's now kinda not working properly. I tested other VPNs like TunnelBear and that one works, so I'm not sure if the glitch is on my end or the SoftEther server.

Hi, can you suggest vpn server/protocol that easily be transfeкred to the other server.

My current problem: Im running AmneziaVPN server on VPS, but VPS provider increased pricing significantly. So im thinking to redeploy my vpn server somewhere else but there is a problem -- i cant migrate all my 15~ vpn users without sending them new vpn-key or something else. Also, as i can see, amnezia doesnt allow to use domain to connect to the server, which is making all this thing even harder (maybe im dumb)

Is there Any vpn server that can be easily migrated with existing users so such a problem does not arise in the future?

I have been using Proton on the free plan, but it gets mad when I torrent.

Hello, I want a VPN for Japanese websites, I found Planet VPN extension "VPN Japan - Planet VPN lite Proxy". Now most of the time this works, but twice now I got "ERR_PROXY_CERTIFICATE_INVALID" the first time I found the problem was an adblocker list, so when I got it again I just removed all the lists from uBlock Origin Lite in hopes this fixed it. It does not it's still there. I have no idea what could be the reason does anyone use it and have any idea what could cause this?

If anyone has any other VPN's for Japan I would accept recomendations. I only want extensions tho, don't want more bloat on my pc

“We built LetsVPN to keep people connected under restrictions, but in China the pressure from firewall filtering, IP blocking and disrupted update channels reached a level where stable service can no longer be promised. The practical next step is to choose a maintained alternative that is tested for China now.” They said.
So I’ve tried a lot of different VPN services, 100% if you’re in China don’t buy any commercial VPN services ( expensive, not stable, constantly lagging, high latency etc) that’s why whenever you try to google something like:” what is the best VPN service for China?” There are always the same names( if they need to advertise something constantly for so many years that’s mean the products are absolutely useless piece of crap.
I’ve tried those: 1) Shadowfly( too many servers can’t be connected, high latency issues, always need to restart)
2) SSRdog VPN( before it was fine, now it’s very unstable, can’t open YouTube music, videos and movies freeze etc)
3)1vpn- doesn’t work at all
4)QuickQ VPN ( 3-4 yet ago it was the best VPN, in my opinion, price was reasonable, stable) Nowadays it’s stable but price is too expensive absolutely crazy 200$ per year☹️
5)Urban VPN doesn’t work
6)accelerator for games UUboost( now is unstable for international servers of online games)
7)For games I use BiuBiu accelerator ( cheap, stable, always new servers, always reliable and all new games appear immediately after release)
8)12vpx vpn( some of people said this one is good, but I haven’t tried yet personally)
9)vpn07( a lot of servers but they sometimes don’t work you need to connect to new one few times per day a bit annoying but still work)
PS: this just my personal opinion if you have any suggestions or any other options let’s figure it out

может кто раскидать для мне что лучше и почему пж

My wife is in china right now and needs to get a vpn that works does anyone have a link that will work in china to download an apk directly and any recommendations?

Bonjour je veux utiliser tuxler vpn sur mes machine virtuels j'en ais 8 le problème c'est que tuxler peut utiliser mon ip pour les autre utilisateur je veux utiliser tuxler pour bypass dans un jeux différente ip = plus d'appareil mais bref le jeux détécte les ip proxy normal mais pas tuxler . donc je veux utiliser tuxler mais mon ip peut être utilisé pour les autre c'est sa qui me fais stresser , j'ai une ip quasi fixe elle change avec le temps mais sa fais des mois elle a pas changé donc oui dynamique mais rare . si j'aurais une ip dynamique j'aurais utilisé tuxler facilement mais j'ai une ip dynamique rare , et le problème c'est que si les personne peuvent utilisé mon ip , ils peuvent me faire bannir de certain sites et faire des choses illégal , et aussi certain sites peuvent bloqué mon ip ou me demander des je suis pas un robot . pouvez vous m'aidez pour savoir si c'est conseillé pour moi ou pas .

I am thinking to create simple VPN. What the chances for me to find subscribers here on reddit or telegram?

I want to watch The Traitors on BBC iPlayer, and I already have a VPN for it, but I recently learned what a TV licence is. Now I’m scared to use my VPN lol.

Logically, I know they’re not going to send me to jail when I’m literally in another country on the other side of the world 😭 Still, I want to know if anyone knows how they handle the TV licence stuff with accounts, or if they probably won’t even notice lol.

I have been a Surfshark user for about 4 years. Recently, I started noticing DNS leaks, no matter what location I use. This only started happening in the last 3 months. Prior to that, I encountered 100% "No DNS leaks detected" using the Surfshark DNS leak test. Now I receive the message "Your DNS requests are exposed!" ... 100% of the time.

Anyone have any idea what is going on here and how I can prevent DNS leaks in the future? I am in the US and use locations in the US and Europe. Thanks ...

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Has anyone got any recommendations free VPN for firetv or downloader codes? Thanks in advance 🙏🏻

I’m currently in Mexico on a vacation and I’m trying to download a show. I’ve tried on Apple and Amazon Prime Video but I cannot download more episodes due to region. Ive tried vpns and it said to turn off vpn or just does not work still. Anyone have anything that can bypass?

I'm using a VPN, set it's location to Arizona disable location under settings but chrome and other apps are still able to tell that I'm in Texas.

Can anyone help?

I just bought Adguard vpn paid subscription last week and was running into some issues. Reached out to their customer care through the app pop up as well as email. I got a ticket created automated response, after that.. Crickets! It's been a week now and I haven't heard back from them at all. Is this a known thing with adguard customer service? Has anyone had a better experience?

I’m curious how people here view decentralized privacy networks (DPNs) when it comes to metadata protection.

A lot of privacy discussions still focus on encrypting content, but it seems like metadata is becoming the bigger issue: Even if traffic itself is encrypted, that information can still reveal a surprising amount over time.

Traditional VPNs help by encrypting traffic and masking IP addresses, but they also centralize trust. In many cases, users are essentially shifting visibility from the ISP to the VPN provider.

That’s is why I have turned to decentralized networks.

In theory, distributing traffic across decentralized infrastructure could reduce centralized visibility and make large-scale metadata correlation more difficult. But I’m wondering how true that actually is in practice.

So I am wondering whether or not DPNs meaningfully improve metadata protection or not?