I am looking for a VPN and since it is almost black friday and cyber week it is probably the best time to get one. So far I have found such deals (mainly from r/vpncoupons subreddit):
Surfshark with an 83% discount and + 3 months free
NordVPN with an 68% discount + 3 free months
TorGuard VPN with 50% discount
Hotspot Shield with 80% discount
CyberGhost gives +3 months for free
ExpressVPN offers 35% discount, but I am not sure if this is their Black Friday
And that is about it. The point of all of this thread is to ask for your recommendations, maybe you have used some of these VPNs? Or maybe you have something better to offer?
I bought Surfshark during the last years black friday. So far it works pretty well, good speeds, helpful customer support. It actually depends on what features you are looking for in a VPN and what are you going to use it for.
In terms of speed, I have had the best experience with ivpn.net. With the provider I was able to use my download bandwidth (100 Mbit) completely. However, with currently 60 or 100 US dollars per year, the provider is anything but cheap.
I use TorGuard. It gets detected as a VPN by some sites and I have to turn it off from time to time. Like, I can’t use Netflix with it. So, if you need a VPN to access georestricted content on Netflix, I can’t promise TorGuard will work.
Other than that, it works very well, and I’ve had basically no issues.
AirVPN claims to have sale up to 74%. Then again three year plan dropped from 99€ to 64,35€, so it should be only 35%. But it’s still cheap, well under 2€/month. I have used it about month for now, seems to work well. Chose it because they have port forwarding for 20 ports.
The point that it is impossible to verify if a VPN really provides what it is offering is valid.
However a VPN cannot sniff the content of your messages given that the whole internet uses SSL Encryption.
So what a VPN can do is to decouple information of what is used and who uses it.
Now the only way I could think of how a VPN would be useful is to use a VPN from a country that has no legal agreements with the country of your origin.
SSL protects information from adversarial use by your VPN provider.
Extra legal VPN provider offers obfuscation of personal information.
Well, yeah. I use VPN for two reasons: To hide my IP-address and to get open incoming ports. I have quite restricting ISP, only port 22 is open. Maybe this could be done with proxy? Is there proxies with port forwarding?
The company is established in Panama simply because the country has no mandatory data retention laws hence they could successfully pass two external and separate audits confirming their no-log policy. Tbh, I use NordVPN for already a long time to trust them enough and recommend the service.