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VPN Suggestions? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My promotional plan NordVPN service is about due for renewal.

I was wondering if any tech support hexbears had any suggestions. The basic plan for Nord is going to run about 150$ US at its full price.

So far I've stumbled across some favorable mentions of Mullvad and the price seems better at about 60$ a year. I'm going to assume that all VPN services are going to make it difficult to seed anything, but if there still some around that dont block all the porta I would like to know more.

Mostly i just fart around on the hexbear at home or with my cell phone. I'm not serious about torrenting but there are things I'm interested in and I've notived are hard to find and don't have many seeds, wouldn't mind helping out without having to figure out how to set up a whole other server to do the thing.

Edit:

Survey says!

-AirVPN

So far its been okay. Bit of a slog getting it on my phone but seems to work okay.

Also a bit of a slog getting things set up to actually seed the occassional thing but that's just because I know about 25% of what I think I know.

Actually got one of those online coupon things to knock a few bucks off as well.

Thanks everbody, you're all swell. sankara-salute

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I use air for torrents and mullvad (with their doh and https proxy) for everything else. Air came out to like ~$2-3 a month on a three year sub and mullvad is a flat $5 a month. Air goes through a gift card that’s not really anonymous but it doesn’t matter. Mullvad gets send a hundred dollar bill in an envelope with a number about every year or so.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mullvad is pretty decent.. i use that from time to time but I have no idea about torrenting. I don't do that on my own connections.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I sent them cash payment in an envelope with my account number written on a sticky note inside once and they actually credited my account.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

yeah they're pretty legit.. i used XMR to pay them.. usually takes about 5 minutes after the payment and boom, account active