What are /r/netneutrality's favorite Products & Services?

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It's an app called WeHe (Android play store link here, iOS store here), written by a Northwestern University professor to determine if your ISP is throttling data.

> What is Surfshark? Are they working well in China?

I think SurfShark is kinda small compared to others, but served me well though the trip this week. Have found an article on this blog post. And the information there is quite correct actually, but my buddy was using ExpressVPN and had no issues too.

Yeah it costs money monthly, I use it to get around region locks on digital content. Private internet access will work for privacy but because a lot of the traffic is coming from one data center in say, France, Netflix will block traffic coming from that node. NordVPN and some others will switch IPs for you to get an unblocked IP for streaming

Literally reading this during my trip in China right now. A prepaid SIM bought outside China also works really well if you won’t use a lot of data and will only bring your phone as you get fast & unrestricted internet access. But I also got ExpressVPN just to be safer.

This is why it is SO important to use a VPN or proxy to access sensitive sites.

TIP: You can search for the website disruptj20.org privately at StartPage.com and then visit the site privately using the free StartPage.com proxy link option.

When you search with StartPage, you are protected. StartPage does not log any personal information, and your searches remain private. Even Edward Snowden has recommended StartPage no-logging privacy.

When you visit the disruptj20.org site through the free StartPage proxy, StartPage doesn't "see" you and neither does the website or host. All they would see is StartPage. This also prevents you from getting any tracking devices, adware or malware on your browser while you visit through the proxy.

Thanks for the write-up. Comcast denied the payment page for NordVPN when I attempted to purchase it (clearly threatened.) I had to contact a relative who has different ISP to help put my payment through. I even contacted NordVPN themselves to verify it wasn't my card or their system, they verified it was neither, but clearly being blocked by ISP.

Purchase went through without an issue when attempting to pay using a different ISP.

The general consensus on reddit is a VPN that's based outside of the US. I've seen Private Internet Access and NordVPN mentioned quite a bit, and I personally recommend Windscribe.
E: Got a name and a word wrong

Related - just found this post from last year from the DigitalOcean cofounder.

>We have not ever, nor will we ever, sell customer information to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

>Nor has this ever been considered or brought up by anyone at DigitalOcean. Ever.

Yes, though not with the same Internet provider. Might be that there's a cap with your ISP or a bandwidth limit and by using NordVPN, you change your location and your ISP. I just suggest checking in with Spectrum and asking if that's the case

only on the sunset of net neutrality, you started having problems? You sure it's not just you? Comcast can be pretty shitty at times when it comes to quality and speed.

I suggest you download a VPN (virtual private network). This allows all your internet traffic and history to be invisible, so ISPs cannot throttle, since they do not know what sites you are visiting. I suggest NordVPN.

You can download a VPN (such as NordVPN) to get around this. VPNs are virtual private networks, where all your internet traffic is hidden. Thus, ISPs cannot throttle what you want to watch, since they cannot keep track of where you are going.

Getting a commercial VPN is definitely a good start. I've been using Freedome, it has been recommended on Twitter quite a bit.

But just like /u/TimmyP7 said, make sure your VPN provider isn't from States (personally I would avoid UK too).

i’d like one, too. edit: here’s the google play one, but as this article (http://appleinsider.com/articles/18/01/18/once-blocked-net-neutrality-tracking-app-wehe-will-be-allowed-in-the-ios-app-store/amp/) says, it’s been blocked by apple currently but will he added back soon.

It means he supports Pai's proposal. Remember, Pai is selling it as the "Restoring Internet Freedom Order". Part of that "Freedom" is giving big broadband providers "freedom" from "burdensome regulation". See: 'Heavy-Handed Rules Are Stifling The Internet'

See Also: "Heavy-Handed Regulation" in this Nov 22nd memo from FCC Commissioner Clyburn, who is against Pai's proposal.

O'Halleran is giving you an apologist's run-around-- i.e., he is selling you out, man.

Ya, I got my info from:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/21/565682679/fcc-unveils-plan-to-repeal-net-neutrality-rules

I don't read the goods (hyperbole) so I don't understand the implications.

Firstly - its 37.5 megabytes per second

My point (which I didn’t make clearly) was that Netflix claim you only need 25 Mbps for 4K content. I just wanted to make it clear I wasn’t not seeing the difference on a 10 Mbps connection.

That aside 300 Mbps is pretty quick. https://www.speedtest.net/global-index

Don’t get me wrong - I would take a 50% price reduction for a 100 Mbps connection if it were offered.

you should visit this site privacy-tools they have a lot of usefull stuff about protecting yourself and improving your privacy. they have tips about vpn, computers l, browsers and even smartphones. they have almost everything in deepth, like configuring firefox to make it very secure and private.

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Have you checked your browser for strange addons / plugins? If it's chrome, try the chrome cleanup tool. Resetting your winsock stack might help if something has wormed its way in there.

> The Cogent/Level 3 conflict was between two backbone Internet Service Providers (ISPs). In the case of Level 3 and Verizon, Level 3 is the backbone ISP providing high-speed, 10Gbps connections to a consumer/business ISP, Verizon.

Verizon/(MCI-Worldcom)/UUNET is a tier 1 backbone provider. Not merely a last-mile ISP. <em>By definition</em> a T1<->T1 peering is a settlement-free arrangement.

Young's comparison with the 2005 Level3/Cogent spat is disingenuous. While it was about out-of-balance peering and, yes Level3 were being assholes, there are significant differences. Cogent were also assholes (Level3 wasn't the only peer to drop Cogent, just the most newsworthy and disruptive at the time.)

IMO Verizon is just taking another shot at the Level3/Cogent playbook. Disrupt the peering paradigm to create a new cash cow. But this time instead of it being about two Tier 1 ISPs traffic being out of balance they're seeing if they can get a Tier 1<->Tier 3 cash cow going.

> As for Verizon's work on directly connecting Netflix servers into Verizon network, presumably using Netflix's Open Connect CDN system, it doesn't seem to be having any positive effect yet.

I don't think so. Netflix has already stated that they've offered in the past to get Verizon on their Open Connect CDN (direct network connections or co-located caching servers) but Verizon refused. They can't very well now say, "Okay, we'll use your free service now that you're paying us to."

It sounds like the hosts file is just correcting a blocked DNS entry. To add an entry (for example) to reddit.com you'd go somewhere like https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=a%3areddit.com&amp;run=toolpage

You'll see all the DNS entries there. You'd just put an entry in your hosts file for each entry. For example:

151.101.1.140 Reddit.com

Of course, it may be easier to just change your DNS server on your router or computer to use google's DNS (or one of the other public DNS servers).

for example wich is a pretty popular android magazine has cloudflare and it's pretty likely you are gonna get blocked by the captcha when using a free vpn. ProtonVPN public servers are a great example because they have many users. The captcha takes a whole lot of time to complete and cloudflare can just not let you enter the site by refreshing the "checking browser".

The google captcha takes so long that I just go back to searching another website.

Hoxx VPN (free & paid version)

Hola (free version)

VPN Area (paid version)

(paid version)

SecureVPN (paid version)

DotVPN (free version)

Speedify (free version)

Betternet (free version)

Ivacy (free version)

Touch VPN (paid version)

VPN Unlimited (paid version)

Zenmate (free version)

Ace VPN (paid version)

AzireVPN (paid version)

BTGuard (paid version)

Ra4w VPN (paid version)

VPN Gate (free version)

My results were actually way worse. And to check how well WeHe worked, I started up my NordVPN client and re-ran the test. With VPN on everything got much higher numbers with no differentiation. I can actually load videos faster on youtube with my vpn on.