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What VPN are you using? (feddit.nl)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use Proton. But I continue to run into more and more websites and services that detect my VPN and refuse my connection, or just run literally 40 captchas in a row until I just give up.

I use Proton because it has a "suite" of products under a single subscription, but that benefit is losing it's allure as some of their products are pretty shitty from a user experience perspective, their customer support is atrocious, and they don't seem to pay any attention to what their users actually want.

Does anyone track known VPN servers? Is there a specific provider that causes less problems? Does anyone test different VPNs for detection?

Thinking about cancelling my subscription and moving to Mullvad.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (15 children)

If you’re using it for privacy, yeah, it wouldn’t help

...he posted in c/privacy

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

If you’re trusting any other VPN provider, then you’re already willing to trust someone. What’s the difference between trusting Proton and trusting Digital Ocean?

If you’re only visiting HTTPS sites then your ISP already can’t snoop your traffic. A VPN gives you very little added privacy.

No matter what you use, you’re really only protecting yourself from your own ISP.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (11 children)

If you’re trusting any other VPN provider, then you’re already willing to trust someone

It's not an issue of trust but of obfuscation. You're sharing IPs with other users

A VPN gives you very little added privacy.

Wrong.

No matter what you use, you’re really only protecting yourself from your own ISP.

Wrong again. You're protecting yourself from having your traffic logged by the sites you visit. Every modern website is collecting this information and selling it to data brokers.