Reply to: Best FREE VPN?

[sanchez1234]

I know you're looking for a free one, but I use Astrill, it's not free but its cheap and it's so simple to use.

[ashley]

Cyberghost is worth a try.

[adubya]

the FiveEyes countries of USA, Canada, UK, Netherlands/Germany, New Zealand.

FiveEyes consists of UK, USA, Canada, Australia, NZ.

[woohoo]

Not sure I would use a free vpn, so here is a list of paid vpns and reviews.

https://www.cnet.com/best-vpn-services-directory/

[ashley]

Windscribe is a good one I heard.

[jettison7]

SimonMac:

ToR is as secure as they come. The weaknesses refer to large parties (governments, intelligence agencies) who are able to correlate traffic end to end. Even with this ability - which the USA possesses in some areas, thanks to the NSA and even more info from GCHQ (worse than NSA). You cannot do better than this at this time, short of using paper with someone in a room together.

For banking, email without encryption, use clear-net carriers or a VPN to the UK if you are abroad. I would add Facebook and Twitter into this too, because those are linked to you and you may not trust your VPN provider, as MITM (man in the middle) attacks can develop and target you over a long time.

For daily browsing of personal websites that do not involve you identifying yourself - or, create dummy accounts, you can use a VPN to multiple countries that are not the FiveEyes countries of USA, Canada, UK, Netherlands/Germany, New Zealand. In reality we can add in Australia, most of Western Europe and ex-British colonies.

For browsing newspapers, websites for your own information purposes or to inform you, do not use the clearnet. Use ToR browser or better yet Tails booted from USB drive. You can set up bridges if you do not wish the traffic to be uniquely identified as 'ToR' traffic by your ISP. If you wish to send encrypted emails through a trusted service then Tails sends all traffic through ToR as default.

The simple fact is many methods for accessing websites are required in order to enhance your privacy. ToR and Tails should be the default choice for IT professionals.

It is very well to avoid your UK and USA intelligence agencies knowing your political, IT, sexuality and other personal points of view, but please keep in the forefront of your mind that rogue VPN owners may also want to profile your traffic. Separate your activities on the internet using these methods and you will be more secure.

I posted advice regarding browser and open source addons to enhance your privacy in this thread in Technical:

https://forums.contractoruk.com/tech...8-adblock.html

[BackupBoy]

Yes, that one came highly recommended. Extremely slow, useless for streaming. Blocked by Netflix, like all the others too.

I’m using NordVPN in the UK right now connected to a US endpoint and streaming Netflix without a problem.

[stek]

I use ExpressVPN which bounced Netflix when I joined over a month ago. I haven't bothered to do this yet but a thread on another forum suggests a live chat with ExpressVPN support on their site and they'll tell you which servers you can use that won't stop Netflix.

That's what I did with the issue I had - their support was very good.

[Laughing Gravy]

ExpressVPN still manage to defeat iPlayer, I dunno how, I was on support with them a week back (as iPlayer did stop working but for another reason) and the guy said they get round iPlayer easily, despite ip-blocking, wouldn't tell me how.

I use ExpressVPN which bounced Netflix when I joined over a month ago. I haven't bothered to do this yet but a thread on another forum suggests a live chat with ExpressVPN support on their site and they'll tell you which servers you can use that won't stop Netflix.

[stek]

Iplayer started bouncing NordVPN today.

ExpressVPN still manage to defeat iPlayer, I dunno how, I was on support with them a week back (as iPlayer did stop working but for another reason) and the guy said they get round iPlayer easily, despite ip-blocking, wouldn't tell me how.

[clearedforlanding]

Iplayer started bouncing NordVPN today.

[css_jay99]

A VPN you host yourself? As a lowly, thick engineer, I doubt I could set that up.

Asus Routers come with Open VPN Server and very easy to setup since you don't have to mess around with setting up a DNS

[SteelyDan]

If youre just browsing I'd second TOR, for the most part it lets you get round the various road blocks that are imposed on certain content over here (Yaaaar me hearties).

Bingo

[Snarf]

Anyone recommend one?

I'd be careful with free (well any) VPN service.

I used HOLA for a while to watch US netflix and noticed that after I connected my mail server would start sending spam using authenticated user accounts.
Turns out its partly my fault, I hadnt enabled SSL on the connection from my PC to the mail server so was sending the credentials out over the VPN.

Still that it only happened after I connected to the VPN (It happened a few times before I connected the two events) suggests that the traffic I sent over the VPN was being analysed.

This might be unrelated but my Netflix user name and password were also leaked during this period, I know because I googled my email address and they both came up on a list of compromised accounts on some dodgy Warez site.


If youre just browsing I'd second TOR, for the most part it lets you get round the various road blocks that are imposed on certain content over here (Yaaaar me hearties).

[SimonMac]

Just wondering, if I want to mask/hide my IP, could I use TOR browser? Would that have the same effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(a...rk)#Weaknesses

So not completely secure, so depends on what you are wanting to do with it?