![]() The Ontario, Canada-based company said earlier this month that two servers hosted in Ukraine were seized as part of an investigation into activity that had occurred a year earlier. Privacy tools-seller Windscribe said it failed to encrypt company VPN servers that were recently confiscated by authorities in Ukraine, a lapse that made it possible for the authorities to impersonate Windscribe servers and capture and decrypt traffic passing through them. Here's another Arstechnica Source separate from the restoreprivacy link above. This could have opened it up to MITM attacks. Their VPN servers seized by Ukrainian authorities weren’t encrypted (they even admitted to it). Just so you're aware, WindScribe VPN Servers were not properly configured before. ![]() Do not get into details of the other two because they are very expensive for me. I checked the Cryptostorm website and realized their port forwarding page cannot be reached! Air VPN Wireguard is still in beta. I'm not even sure about the list in this post. Apparently, it's very tricky when it goes to VPN providers. If I cannot find something untill Valentine's day, I'll go back to PIA. Maybe it's fine in some regions but to me, it was total trash. I don't know how NordVPN is mentioned in websites. I realized I am wasting my time and asked for a refund. Then he asked for my internet provider, lists of apps, etc. I spent 2 hours with the customer service and the guy asked me to do all sorts of bombo jambo which I did. It was fine for 1 hour then it stopped connecting to servers. My PIA subscription expired last week, and I got a 2 year subscription from Nord. Speaking on that, install an ad-blocker, more specifically uBlock Origin which is available as Firefox add-on and Chrome extension. Make sure you're using the original websites and not ad-ridden clones. Check also for DNS leaks, especially on Firefox ( read here), and might as well test IPv6 too. Not torrenting related but you can check you're not leaking your identity through WebRTC. If you've picked one of these VPNs and binded then connect to the closest city/country server even if it's the same. You can test it by using a torrent of Ubuntu (legal) - if the interface is binded, it should not be able to download unless the VPN is connected. Doing this will reduce the likelihood of having a leak to virtually zero, much more effective than a killswitch. Check your VPN provider help page for specific instructions. WireGuard is the newest protocol which is 20-60% faster than OpenVPN, with state-of-the-art cryptography and written in Connection > Listening Port). Further, it costs less than $5.000 to move HQ so if it made that much a difference they would all do it. Some would add HQ outside 5 eyes but for the torrenting threat model this doesn't really have any impact. Excellent reputation and track record (anonymity/privacy).Just 3 basic but non-negotiable requirements: What next? (torrent client, configurations, testing leaks).You can forget the first page of Google results as well, it's all paid advertising.īasically if you see something about a coupon code or exclusive deal, don't trust it. This means they're trying to monetize so they have the incentive to push the VPNs that pay the most for advertising, instead of unbiased recommendations. On this topic, follow this general rule of thumb: do not trust reviews, articles or YouTube videos where they provide VPN affiliate links. This thread aims to address that by focusing on simple yet objective and verifiable criteria that are especially important when it comes to torrenting (performance and anonymity). There are many VPNs out there and it's hard to navigate the space of VPN reviews given the absurd amount of affiliate marketing and paid advertising.
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