My Surfshark subscription just ran out.
I found it a little sus when they removed their Russian endpoints after the Ukraine war started, so I don’t want to renew with them. If they’re going to bend the knee when it comes to US policies against Russia, where are they going to stand when the three-letter agencies ask for backdoors?
Open to any and all suggestions!
I won’t recommend anything because it’s impossible to guarantee that they don’t keep logs, but Privacy Guides (formerly privacytools.io, fairly well-respected AFAIK) recommends IVPN, Mullvad or ProtonVPN. To me the first two seem like the best options (ProtonVPN may be fine, but Proton’s been shady with their mail service)
PrivacyGuides is one of the most harmful groups out there as far as their moderation goes. Its head Jonah stole off $10000 ($17,500 in all) PTIO donations and put it into his private account, they seized PTIO subreddit which is locked to this day, they made a malicious GrapheneOS figurehead Tommy a moderator immediately after he published a faux hitpiece on me (which trended on PG for a month), and they protect toxic GrapheneOS devs/mods fervently to promote Google and Apple (mods/heads all are American/Canadian nationalists).
You can find more here, and upon reading comments in here: https://old.reddit.com/r/u_lo________________ol/comments/1314x2x/why_did_i_do_this/ji5l5uz?context=300
Also their advice regarding ProtonVPN is nonsense. They just regurgitate the common notions of privacy community and are thus a useless entity. You will hear the correct advice from one of us people who are deep into this stuff. The current VPN picks are Mullvad, IVPN and AirVPN, and Windscribe a close second, with OVPN being a distant third (got bought by Pango/HotspotShield recently), and the rest are far below.
Edit: I see someone is downvoting me even here… I wonder if its just an ignoramus here, or is it witch hunting taken to another extreme…
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do you know of something similar to PG without suspicious moderation?
I hate to be a shill, but r/privatelife, what I created years ago out of frustration from r/privacy and the usual mainstream privacy subreddits. You can take a look yourself at whatever I have written being basically the only large scale vigilante acts in privacy community in the past years.
For very crude and deep stuff you could take a look at Shadow Wiki for stuff like HAM Radio (USA related). We have been friends for few years, since we are darknet aficionados.
For VPNs, r/VPN offered me to become a partner, but I found their affiliate linkings not very confidence inducing, so I just prefer r/VPNTorrents. No partnership.
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Mullvad is widely used by cybercriminals which might be a good recommendation (they kinda need relatively good privacy and anonymity)
I use IVPN and have never had issues. I don’t pirate a ton but I pirate enough for it to be worth it.