Safing.io portmaster with SPN. It's better than any of the other recommendations so far.
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2024
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I really like airvpn.
I'll vouch for airvpn. I've been using it for probably six years now with no issues. When using wireguard I can download Linux isos at 500mbps.
Not sure if limited by your connection but on PIA I'm pulling about 980 megabit/s
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PIA for cheap service
I can also vouch for PIA's cost vs. performance, but their prices have risen recently (still cheaper than most), and I also learned the other day that they're now owned by Kape Technologies, a company that used to do bloat/malware development to do shady data mining.
I'm actually considering switching to AirVPN or Mozilla VPN/Mullvad, despite being a longtime customer, just for the peace of mind. Also, if you buy the three year plan of AirVPN, it's cheaper than PIA.
And, PIA still doesn't offer a standalone WireGuard configuration file, despite promising it was in the works a few years ago, and that's been a stick in my craw when trying to set it up the way I want on Bazzite Linux.
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I'm on Proton. It's easy to set up on Ubuntu and Ubuntu like systems. I'm on Mint. Haven't tried it on other distros.
If I ever get a VPN this is what I'd go for, but implement on the firewall. That way if I choose to, I can route specific traffic through my regular internet if I wanted.
It's easy to set up on Arch as well if you use wiregaurd.
Proton and mullvad are the two best options I know of.
Pretty much any VPN provider is usable on Linux though, network manager can handle wireguard or openvpn configs just fine. Your biggest concern should be trustworthiness.
I just use Mullvad with wireguard, not very hard to setup.
I'm a Proton slave, all my eggs are in their basket so I'll go ahead and provide some free marketing for them. ProtonVPN is pretty good since it's ran by a good company that cares about you, getting Port Forwarding setup on Linux is a bit of a chore but I believe they're working on automating it, the Windows app does have it automated already by the way.
I do worry about the long-term practicality of ProtonVPN because of this manual process, since as far as I can tell there's no way to automatically hand your assigned port to the torrent client...
Pick one that has a wireguard config generator, so you don't need to use any client software besides the normal linux wg client.
I'd also look for one that accepts anonymous payment methods. Even if you don't intend to go to the trouble to use that yourself, it's probably a good sign if it's available. Mullvad is pretty safe and served me well until they stopped doing port forwarding. Proton, windscribe, azire, and airvpn were the ones that seemed most recommended when I went to look for a new one a few months ago.
The only VPNs which are not owned by marketing companies are Mullvad and Proton. The largest VPNs are owned by Kape Technologies, renamed because their prior company name distributed malware, whose top people are former Israeli military, so I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them. I would never use a free VPN except for Proton, and Proton's paid VPN has a lot more nodes and features.
I'm a Proton die hard but I hear their Linux VPN client is lacking. I use all of their products but not on Linux.
You don't really need a client unless you want to do something fancy like port forwarding which they don't support anyway
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Mozilla's VPN is just reselling Mullvad, so you can support Mozilla and use Mullvad at the same time if you like.
That's good to know!
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Mullvad has an open source client. It can also be set up usung OpenVPN too.
Bear in mind they don't have Port Forwarding anymore.
They also have Shadowsocks proxies and SSH tunneling to help circumvent some blocking.
I used the free version of Proton for a while, but when I decided to start paying I went with Surfshark. They were the best deal at the time and their client works well with the Windows, Android and Linux devices I have used it on. I have encountered some annoying "prove you are human" prompts when using Google Search so I mostly use DuckDuckGo.
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Anything that's openvpn compatible will work but requires some setup
requires some setup
The story of Linux in a few words.
Every OS requires setup.
windows just does it for you, sometimes poorly. never used a mac so idk there
From the one time I tried MacOS in a VM, setup is similar to Windows with somehow even fewer options and stronger 1984 vibes.
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im having very good results with proton/openvpn using gluetun