Ask HN: What's the Best VPN?

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by yoyar • 5 years ago

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mattl2• 5 years ago

One you run yourself

girishso2• 5 years ago

Self hosted VPN on DO or Linode (where you're paying with your credit card) won't protect privacy, right?

mattl2• 5 years ago

Who do you want privacy from?

PaulHoule• 5 years ago

tailscale?

vfulco2• 5 years ago

Depending on the bad actors you are trying to protect against, cycling through ones you self-host and one's you subscribe to are best. Check out lantern, google's outline, tor etc. Currently, the most secure have wireguard at their core. It's do-able with a little study. Distributed web will be the evil-do'ers elimination and is coming sooner than you think.

**thank god for all the silicon valley gurus (I use that as a universal label) keeping the world free, educated, and in touch with the truth.

coopreme• 5 years ago

Can you expand on your thoughts on distributed web??

cpach• 5 years ago

This question is nearly impossible to answer if you don’t add more context about what you want to achieve.

snickersnee11• 5 years ago

The ones you can buy with monero or cash.

6r0k• 5 years ago

As already mentioned this is highly dependent on why you want a VPN and what's most important to you. That being said, an internet hero by the name of ThatOnePrivacyGuy researched and scrutinized a significant number of available VPNs using numerous data points and compiled them all into a spreadsheet for easy comparison.

The original site is now defunct [0], but has been merged with SafetyDetectives, and so now the full comparison can be found here [1].

Without any other details, that is your best place to start looking.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/user/ThatOnePrivacyGuy/comments/jmuty...

[1] https://www.safetydetectives.com/best-vpns/

Edit: adjusted formatting

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