I highly doubt that is Verizon so much as the capabilities of the VPN. VPN services, as a whole, will run slower than a non-vpn connection due to needing to encrypt/decrypt packets of data.
I'd try a new service personally. I like Private Internet Access (and they're super kickass proponents of Net Neutrality to boot). I had some speed issues at first, but after i changed my TAP driver to a different version I can usually manage about 150-190Mbps down. Other services had me around 5-15Mbps down. Without VPN I get around 250Mbps down w/ Comcast.
The Curious Case Of The 'EA Game Dev' Who Said He Received Death Threats
https://kotaku.com/the-curious-case-of-the-ea-game-dev-who-said-he-receive-1820474458/amp
I recommend you read through the entire thing and make up your own mind, but the evidence is quite convincing for me.
Private Internet Access is a solid VPN who took out an ad naming all the senators who voted for this bill. You can purchase their VPN with gift cards, which when bought with cash, provide a good level of anonymity.
The Curious Case Of The 'EA Game Dev' Who Said He Received Death Threats
https://kotaku.com/the-curious-case-of-the-ea-game-dev-who-said-he-receive-1820474458/amp
I recommend you read through the entire thing and make up your own mind, but the evidence is quite convincing for me.
https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
>For those who want something a little more lightweight, there are a number of useful browser extensions that do not encrypt your data like a VPN does, but use other methods to avoid tracking and search profiling by ISPs/advertisers. One option is TrackMeNot, which is a browser extension for both Chrome and Firefox that runs in the background and sends periodic search queries to different popular search engines that essentially serve to hide your own internet traffic in a sea of random searches on random sites, preventing corporations from tracking your browsing habits.
>Another option similar to TrackMeNot is AdNauseam, which works by clicking on every single blocked ad at on every site you visit in the background, which obfuscates your browsing patterns, much like TrackMeNot. As of January 2017, however, AdNauseam has been banned on Chrome. C'est la vie. It's still available on Firefox and Opera though.
From the stickied post at /r/keepournetfree
>For Android users the app is available on Google Play
I was just going to ask about that.. it would seem odd to not have an Android version of the app, since he did (or does?) get some funding from Google.
anyway.. Fuck Apple
The Curious Case Of The 'EA Game Dev' Who Said He Received Death Threats
https://kotaku.com/the-curious-case-of-the-ea-game-dev-who-said-he-receive-1820474458/amp
I recommend you read through the entire thing and make up your own mind, but the evidence is quite convincing for me.
> 1) It's not more money.
Many VPNs allow unlimited data transfer. If you were to set up your own VPN, you would have to pay for a VPS to set it up on. For the cost of a VPN, you cannot buy unlimited data transfer.
> 2) It's more reliable in the sense that you don't have to share an IP that countless other people have shit all over.
That's a layer of obfuscation. That's a good thing in terms of privacy. If you set up your own VPN on a VPS, you will have a static IP assigned to it. That IP is linked to that VPS, which is linked to you. With a VPN used by many people, you maintain a layer of obfuscation/plausible deniability. Activity originating from the IP of a VPN service cannot be distinguished and linked to you.
> Most VPN services have serious issues with having to solve captchas on Google and being flat out blocked from websites due to the amount of spam and intrusion attempts that originate from VPN services.
I've only experienced a small amount of inconvenience like this. Not enough for me to care, and certainly not enough to stop using a VPN. Browsing the web with Tor on the other hand is unbearable because of this.
Another point about VPN services is that their software is good. For Android/iOS devices, the software implementations make it VERY convenient and seamless to use with minimal hassle or technical knowledge. I use IPVanish and my favorite features about it are the "Always On" feature which does what it says, and the "Kill Switch" which will block any traffic in the case that connection to the VPN drops so that you do not accidentally browse without it.
The only bad part is Netflix. They block VPNs, and the only good way around that right now is to set up your own.
https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
I've been thinking of something like this I could run on a raspberry-pi that I just leave connected to my cable modem at home all day. It'd be great to develop some sort of obfuscation-box script that could be run on a raspberry-pi that was easily deployable—similar to what pi-hole already does.
if it's easy to install, and you don't really have to think about it once it's set up, then more people will use it.
Yeah, censorship should be decreasing each year, but why we're going to the completely opposite direction? Even more blocking.. more bans.. Actually, I heard that NordVPN is doing some sort of contest against article 13 (meme ban), so at least someone is trying to raise awareness _is_hosting_a_contest_to_express_their/
It certainly depends on whether your ISP blocks VPNs, however that certainly is a viable option. I don't know of any free VPNs that offer unlimited data, however if you're willing to spend a small amount (~$60/yr), you should look into AirVPN.
Of course, this all depends on what actions your ISP takes so I wouldn't spend any money before you need a way of getting around content throttling.
I just used this guide to setup a home VPN last week. It's fairly involved, but I doubt you're going to have an easier time with another guide if you aren't already slightly familiar with linux terminals. Even if you're a beginner though as long as you follow the guide to the nail you shouldn't have a problem as it is one of the most detailed and intricate guides I've ever used. If you need any help feel free to message me but I'm not an expert in any way, just someone who's done a handful of these projects.
PIA (Private Internet Access) It's $3.33/month if you get a year subscription. You can use it on as many devices as you want simultaneously.
I would recommend setting it up on each device separately rather than through the router. They have an app and instructions that make it easy for a novice to do.
It has a pretty great reputation. They don't keep logs and it doesn't noticeably affect performance.
TL;DR on VPNs: A VPN encrypts all the traffic between your device and the VPN server, so your ISP, or the guy running your local wifi hotspot, or any other would-be snoopers can't look at your traffic and see what you're doing online. Once it reaches the VPN server it goes out to the wider Internet using the VPN's IP address instead of your own, so the rest of the Internet can't easily see who you are either.
I would highly recommend using a VPN if you use torrents or Kodi etc. Even if you don't, I still think it's worth it for the additional security/privacy it provides. Another perk is that you can log in to foreign VPN servers, so I can watch BBC live streams that are not available to US ip addresses.
OpenVPN sucks on some connections with a <5 mbps server upload. SoftEther is a open source program that supports stuff like L2TP, MS-SSTP, VPN over https (which works in places that block other VPNs) and OpenVPN's protocol. Digital Ocean has a great tutorial to set it up on a Linux PC (including Raspberry Pi).
The Curious Case Of The 'EA Game Dev' Who Said He Received Death Threats
https://kotaku.com/the-curious-case-of-the-ea-game-dev-who-said-he-receive-1820474458/amp
I recommend you read through the entire thing and make up your own mind, but the evidence is quite convincing for me.
Test it by using a VPN. I confirmed this on my connection here in DC. I only have comcast as an option. In a game I play often (War Thunder) I would see a ping of around 20-30 max. Now I am seeing a min of 60-70ms. I also connect to Discord. I am now getting an average connection and my status is yellow. (Traffic light system).
Now I also have a VPN called . I enable this and all is well. I connect to one of the NYC hubs. Game drops to around 40ms and my Discord connection go's green.
So either they are routing me through somewhere really shitty from DC and not NYC or they are filtering unsecured traffic such as games etc.
Going to a VPN means the traffic is encrypted and they can't see what it is. Therefor can't filter it.
This is all theory at the moment though. We would need many more people testing to confirm this
I have recently talked to their customer support regarding PureVpn 360. What they have told me that PureVPN 360 is covering almost all aspect of Online or Cyber security. They are going to provide Ad blocker, App Control and also giving you the option of Parental Control of which websites your kids can access, also they are adding the feature of antivirus and malware protection, giving the point recent ransomware attack this PureVPN 360 can help prevent us from these type of situation in future. According to their support and website they are going to launch it in July.
For example, I use ExpressVPN. They update the IP addresses of their servers fairy frequently, but Netflix, Hulu, and the like are pretty quick to catch on to them and will ban those IP addresses from viewing their content. So in other words, unless I update the server information on my router regularly (think multiple times a day, sometimes), then I wouldn't be able to view Netflix, Hulu or other such streaming companies' content on my device. That's how it is right now.
My question is if those companies might think twice about that, since using a VPN would basically allow us to view their content at the same speed as anything else because the ISP wouldn't know what it is that we're looking at. It would benefit everyone except the ISP.
Other than businesses using them a lot, it's extremely difficult to automate a VPN detection system without many false positives. ISP's might throttle the popular VPN providers manually, but then anyone with a little tech know-how can rent a server for $5/mo and run a personal VPN server on it. Unless the government outright bans VPN's' it's a cat and mouse game really.
For example: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-openvpn-server-on-ubuntu-16-04
They got bought by Kape Technologies, a former malware company, awhile back. They recently acquired ExpressVPN too.
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Ethics aside, Brave is open source. They've been open about exactly what information they collect. They even challenge people to audit their code to see if there's any privacy issues. I've done a bit of research into it, myself, and the most I found was a hardcoded whitelist that made it through the ad filter for compatibility reasons at the request of its users.
then trump is becoming more liked, he's not hypnotizing everyone to like him, and you can bet it's gonna be falling after net neutrality repeal and this whole family separation thing (which bill clinton put in to place and trump repealed) also, the news clearly ( https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/29/opinions/trump-clueless-about-global-market-dantonio/index.html ) isn't being silenced, you won't see headlines like that coming from north korea or russia (you will see it from russia, but fresh from the hands of a dead journalist)
I put some on this url: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNXyyV67uO-kld-KBvDLsrGbeYXEQm6eKrbpGxezOmRaF7prHl-pvg3AbkBtD9amA?key=OU9CS25yS2dDNnZjQ0h0Nl9kek10V0ZURDU1aWRn
Put memes, fliers, anything to help support this internet on this photo album!
Hi folks! RedMorph a startup (Pure Play Privacy company) has been doing this for many years. Check out their recent Android app on the PlayStore (link at the bottom). Their name was inspired from the Red Pill + Morpheus scene in the movie MATRIX and has cool UI. Browsers and apps (including system apps) all covered in the tracker/privacy protection.
In addition to what /u/eegras said, here's my original Sass code for the theme (it underwent some tweaking after I first published this). You can use this to more easily change the CSS selectors and adapt it for you own site.
You can try using Startpage.com to search privately, then use the Anonymous View links to visit the websites. Anonymous View keeps you hidden and changes your user agent. Anonymous View is like a VPN on steroids because it even prevents fingerprinting, too.
“Private Internet Access’ VPN encrypts your usage and doesn’t keep logs of what you see and do online. They’re champions for the open internet and support Fight for the Future, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and other digital rights groups.
When you sign up for their Cyber Week deal, 30% of the proceeds will go toward our campaigns for net neutrality and internet freedom. We trust Private Internet Access with our own personal security, which is the only reason we’re willing to recommend them to you.
Running a VPN makes it so companies like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T can’t spy on you and make money off selling your data. It’s one of the most concrete ways you can stop them from exploiting you.” - Fight for the Future
Does Desktop and Mobile has a same set up? and where is your country located at? I'm using FrootVPN that encrypts 2048bit. I've been using it since 2012 up to now It was a great and secured connection, I can access Netflix also.
Edit: Direct quote from ProtonVPN's website:
> Bandwidth throttling
> If your ISP decides to throttle your entire Internet connection, there is nothing that ProtonVPN can do to help you bypass that since the VPN connection to our servers is established over the connection provided by your ISP.
If they aren't sure which user it is they would just apply the throttle.
Do you have any evidence to support that claim? There are thousands of people using NordVPN to do some nasty things and none of them was caught, I know that for sure. If it is true, and the guy was arrested, it was his own fault not knowing how to use VPN. He was even more stupid if he thought that person can be traced by his IP only. With the way VPN works, it's impossible to determine individual user's activity. Encapsulated request reaches the server and comes out with the same IP as thousands other people.
Would you care to explain, technically, how ISP supposed track particular user's activity?
I'm interested in buy a subscription VPN but I'm not sure which ones to look at. I play a lot of bandwidth heavy games as well as stream video games from my laptop and stream a lot of movies to my other computers all at the same time. Is there a vpn I can connect my entire home network to 24/7 without limiting my connection speeds? googling around a bunch of different websites comparing VPN services, it seems that ExpressVPN and NordVPN are the best, but I know they likely run those websites and Express is over twice the price as Nord.