I’m a total noob about VPNs, but I’d like to beat my service provider’s data throttling. I need to do a lot of downloading and uploading of large files, and am running into my deadline, but I don’t have any disposable income to put into a paid VPN. Do Y’all have suggestions?
For people telling me to pay for one; if I had the money I would have just done that and wouldn’t have needed to ask. But as it stands, I can barely make enough money to feed myself, it’s pretty hard to justify the cost of a decent VPN (even if it seems cheap to you). I don’t really care about privacy or companies selling my data, I just want to upload what needs to be uploaded in a timely manner, as it’s already taken three days of shit internet, and it’s still 22% done.
While most free VPNs are scam, ProtonVPN is recommended by proivacytools.io and is available on F-Droid. But if you can, support them by paying for their services. Oh, and the free version doesn’t work for torrenting, for obvious reasons.
protonvpn is dope but held my email account w them ransom and wont unlock it
I tried ProtonVPN a few months ago, it worked great for a while then suddenly stopped working entirely for me. I was using it to watch geo-restricted youtube content, so I assume either my browser wasn’t allowing it to change my location, or it just stopped working.
That’s a shame, cause among free vpns that I tried it had the best speed.
PTIO is muh for advice on anonymity or anything greater than generic “use X browser Y addon” advice, prefer any OpenVPN or Wireguard compatible VPN, lower priority to Bitmask based VPNs as they leak a bit unless you use force tunnel routing based on OS configuration.
For less of anonymity and more of just casual geoblock bypassing, Windscribe free addon with temp email gets you 10GB/mo and job done. It is not botnet unlike Hola or such harmful proxies.
I personally have stuck to both of these measures for the past 2-3 years. Any stricter anonymity work goes to specific darknets.
To be fair I’ve just recently come to take privacy seriously, and I don’t know any better source than privacytools.io for general privacy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You will be far better off in this community, and on my privatelife (both Lemmy and Reddit).
r/privacy and r/privacytoolsio communities of such kind will push you into Apple meme or Brave scam or GrapheneOS toxic community with disregard for your needs, and teach you a bunch of nonsense.
You can also pick The Hated One or Techlore for starters. Michael Bazzell’s podcast is nice to learn OSINT and OPSEC tactics in general.