Thoughts on AirVPN? Based in Italy, so part of the 14 Eyes, but supposedly “operated by activists in defense of net neutrality, privacy and against censorship,” and fully compliant with the EU’s Directive on Data Protection and General Data Protection Regulation. No personal information or real email account required when signing up, no logging, and open source clients. Their About us section is interesting.
However, they claim they don’t “provide external companies with root access to our servers to perform audits which cannot anyway guarantee future avoidance of traffic logging or transmission to third parties. On the contrary, we deem very useful anything related to penetration tests. Such tests are frequently performed by independent researchers and bounty hunters and we also have a bounty program.”
The major appeals are the claims they make, the open source clients, 5 active forwarded ports, and cheap pricing (3 years of service for less than $90 during a sale).
In talk just now was mentioned they are looking at package offers and discounts in the future, but probably not like the others do. Part of the discussion is that there are perks to Brave VPN that you don’t get from others. But wasn’t much said on that and the one primary thing mentioned was kind of niche.
Honestly, I just think the big issue comes from it being a partnership with Guardian. So it’s two companies involved, both of whom want to get some money. The others are just one company working on it. But that’s just my quick thought and isn’t anything that has been said.
Both kape based vpn and nord group aren’t great either , while yes brave vpn is more expensive I would Compare with windscribe , Mullvad , Proton and ivpn
Anything kape and nord is kinda not great for privacy.
It’s one of the best. I was a subscriber for well over a year, until they dropped port forwarding. I’m not asking about the best VPN, I’m asking for their (or I suppose anyone’s) thoughts on AirVPN based on the info I provided, and if anyone wants to dig deeper, based on the info on their site.
I noticed someone had previously upvoted, so it would be good to get some opinions, especially critical ones, for anyone who passes by and is also interested since it’s a semi-popular recommendation along with Proton and Mullvad in a couple communities around here.
It goes into all the details about jurisdictions, which companies get audited, which companies have given information to governments, logs policies, etc.
If you want to actually compare the VPNs, then that’s the chart to look at. But I understand the popular narrative is Mullvad or nothing for a lot of people.
Nordvpn on top of the list must be a joke. How can anyone think nordvpn is better than mullvad in jurisdiction wise that’s beyond me.
NordVPN had a databreach and kept the news hidden from the public for more than a year. Their response was “it is not our fault, a third party data center we work with had poor configurations”. A THIRD PARTY DATA CENTER now go check the spreadsheet again, it gives “5” to NordVPN because they use self hosted servers. Lol.
As a rule of thumb, don’t trust companies who sell their VPN products with the false promise of absolute protection against hackers or increasing your base internet speed. There should be an additional column called “trustworthy” that has 0 for NordVPN and most other VPN solutions on the list.
I did manually test professionally vpn for years non affiliated so I know kinda the in and outs of the industry that’s why the chart is on many levels just fluff and weirdness no *"popular narrative " here.
I use it almost exclusively for torrenting. Sometimes, I’ll use it if I’m on a public network, even though SSL encryption is standard now, or if I’m visiting more private sites I’d rather my ISP not log. While using AirVPN shifts trust to the them and their ISP, I feel more comfortable since multiple users share the same IP address, creating a layer of obfuscation, and I trust them more than most popular VPNs, like Nord.
It’s not something I leave on a majority of the time and especially don’t run my whole network through it.
A lot of them do. I really only trust the ones that have actually been subpoenaed and it’s been proven that they didn’t or they have had multiple independent audits