VPNs

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What is everybody using these days? My subscription is about to run out and I am wondering if its worth renewing or seeing what options there are. I am with purevpn at the mo, I have been looking at a service called Nordvpn.

Does anyone have a preference? Also if someone uses a free one, how good is it?

 

I have a lifetime subscription to purevpn and love it, I love the fact that it can either be client or plugin based (I had the plugin on Chrome).

I have no plans to move from PureVPN at this time.

 

Well basically when I want to go anonymous, ill just click the program and it then covers me etc. The way I test that its working is to go to WhatismyIPaddress.com and see if where its says it has put me is true. I have heard of things like IP address leak whee a program runs but its not properly covering your tracks etc.

I am halfway through an audible book called Tor and the dark net, the author explains about vpns, he advises to use a different browser like Tor and if you want to be fully anonymous, you are meant to use the Tails OS and you are not meant to go to your usual sites, facebook and the like etc, as by doing this people can track you through exit nodes that you (the user) creates when going from your anonymous connection to your usual haunts, the VPN is tagged to you.

That book, Tor and the dark net is worth a read/listen. You can get a 90 day trial of audible if , like me, you are too lazy to read sometimes

 

Im not too familiar with the uses of VPNs, but why do you guys use them? only time I used them was to download torrents back in the day

 

Well its not all for dodgy purposes, maybe I want to browse the net without being spied on