I’d love to support Brave more because I like everything they are doing, but $10 a month for a VPN is so overpriced. Even half that price is considered high for a VPN.
Brave please make this reasonably price and you’ll be flooded with sign ups!
Get mullvad, it’s 5€ a month and way better privacy wise than all the other companies.
It’s similar to others. Such as if you check https://protonvpn.com/pricing it shows $9.99/mo if you get monthly. But you are right that they are offering some discounts right now for people who sign up for either 1 year or 2 years.
Surfshark which is $15/mo or higher https://surfshark.com/pricing (though again, they give big discount if buy 1-2 years at a time)
NordVPN shows $12.99/mo or higher if monthly. https://nordvpn.com/pricing/ (though again, big discount if buy 1-2 years at a time)
Brave VPN is done through Guardian, which is https://guardianapp.com/firewall/pricing/ where you see it’s the $9.99/mo
List goes on.
Well you can have 10 devices with it
ProtonVPN is included with my subscription, rare times that I need VPN access, for geolocation related things, but I do VPN back to my home often.
Cloudflare is my go to. 1.1.1.1 it is
That is pretty expensive. There are a number of other cheaper VPNs that are worth considering. For improving connectivity and accessing blocked apps and content, I suggest Virtual 5G Express. You can download it from App Store or Google Play.
Everyone should really have a VPN now. We need to be normalizing privacy practices. It not only helps us to stay safe, but helps to protect everyone else as well. Please let us know what VPN you decide to try.
Used pia for 8 years now not one piracy notice. It’s also cheaper.
because bandwidth is expansive. check AWS prices 
Proton VPN is free by default, no data caps, no CC required. The only limitations on the base free version are the free servers don’t allow p2p/torrents, you can’t pick a specific country (it cycles randomly through a handful of countries), and only one active connection per household. But other than that it’s a solid choice. Plus it’s open source and non-profit, so you don’t get popups constantly asking you to upgrade to premium. It was created by CERN devs as a side project for their Proton encrypted mail service, and has won plenty of industry awards, so don’t let the “free” throw you off.
Have to be that guy but aren’t all VPN providers just one subpoena away from throwing you under the bus? Isn’t TOR still the way to go? Wait, that’s still around, right?
Use Mullvad if you want a VPN, otherwise don’t bother.
i dunno if I’d go that far.
There are probably only about 3 good VPNs to choose from (no brave VPN is not one of them lol), one of them being Mullvad. But yeah, the price is the best out of all of them. (others being Proton and IVPN)
Every other VPN has huge sales constantly, the “normal” price should be ignored when they are offering 70% off all year round. The highest I’ve ever seen a VPN offer was $5 but they usually sit around $3.
Here are the one year plans compared, which actually give a real insight to how expensive Brave is:
- BraveVPN: $100
- NordVPN: $60
- ProtonVPN: $60
- SurfShark: $47 +3 free months
- Cyberghost: $51
Torguard is offering 70% off with 70off2025 . 46usd for three years
It’s actually very interesting to look into!
Most VPN companies house their business in countries like Panama or Switzerland who have really strong data protection laws and refuse to acknowledge foreign subpoenas. This makes it so they don’t have to respond to any government requests for data on their platforms. That is the first thing you want to check when using a VPN company.
Next is the log policy. Apple was famous for popularizing this method of securing user data. Years ago the FBI tried to force Apple to unlock a phone for them and they refused and it went to court and became a massive case. In response to this Apple decided to have a new policy of not storing any crucial user data and making everything else end-to-end encrypted. This is why all of Apple’s security features are all on device. So if the FBI goes to them today and says they need some data, their response is “we don’t have it and can’t get you it sorry”. Good VPNs follow this same method and don’t store any user data so subpoenas are useless.
The last thing to check is if the company is using Ram-only storage. Ram can’t be used for long term storage because of the way it works and all data is instantly deleted if the servers lose power. So if the first two safeguards fail and the VPN servers get raided by the government, then no data that’s currently on the servers could actually be retrieved.
Bonus safeguard: Many VPN companies have something called a security canary. It’s essentially a statement that the company puts out on very frequent increments that says “we have not received any legal demands to hand over data”. The reason they do this is because if they do get into legal trouble and are given a gag order, they would not be allowed to tell their customers that they data is potentially being looked at. So the canary works in the opposite way, they tell you that there is no issues going on and if one day they don’t make that statement, then you know something is wrong.
Nord vpn ceo said it will, something like “we comply with all suppoenas, fortunatly we have zero records of what you are doing, so we hand over blank paper.”
Surfshark is nord group not Norton group.
Norton is avast vpn , and hidemyass and stuff not related at all with surfshark.
Surfshark is also a pretty average vpn now they were good 5 or so years ago.
Express vpn is kape , read their history up
What would you say are the other 2?