To help you pick the best VPN, we asked dozens of VPNs to detail their logging practices, how they handle torrent users, and more.

There’s way too much hype over VPN Providers, but do not forget, you are routing all your traffic through their servers

As a general advice, if a VPN provider keeps logs of your activity, does not allow you to pay with crypto, and generally spends way too much on youtube ads is probably not an ideal choice.

Do not follow any advice/recommendation blindly, do your own research on which one offers the best service for your own needs.

TorrentFreak Q&A with VPN Providers

    • ki77erb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      “Private Internet Access has verified in court multiple times that we keep no logs.”

      If they’ve gone to court on multiple occasions and proven they keep no logs, that’s pretty compelling evidence that they’re telling the truth. I guess you could never be 100% sure though.

        • zaine00@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          2 years ago

          No way to be 100% sure, but they were raided by police recently and supposedly walked away with nothing. Verge article

          SomeOrdinaryGamers had a video on it also.

        • equalszero@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          83·
          2 years ago
          • Does not contain non-free js in their website
          • Do not depend on google services etc.
            • Also have made major contributions to FOSS projects
          • There is no Swedish law applicable to them to share data with their goverment
          • They do NOT even allow you to create an account, you just generate a random account number, fill it up with time(monero & bitcoin & cash payment via mail allowed)
          • They also offer OpenVPN with RSA-4096 and WireGuard which uses Curve25519 and ChaCha20-Poly1305
          • Also awesome DNS protection

          There are other VPN providers that offer similar stuff to mullvad, I can keep going for days.

          TL;DR They do not ask you for any info that would deanonymize you & support FOSS projects

            • equalszero@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
              2·
              2 years ago

              Some companies like Mullvad have no way to even keep logs

              They do not ask for information that would deanonymize you would be a better way of putting that

              I’m not familiar with them, can you explain how you are certain they don’t keep logs?

              TL;DR They do not ask you for any info that would deanonymize you & support FOSS projets

              None of that answers my question.

              I just shared a link where they answer those questions in much more detail that I can do via Lemmy commet replies. If you have specific questions please share them, if someone wants to help you out they will reply, otherwise just read the article and try different VPN providers out yoruself.

              edit: formatting replies edit2: Because you edited your reply you should NEVER trust any company with your personal information. You should just NOT give it to them, I do not trust Mullvad or any other “privacy” related company to store data that would deanonymize me, you are proving my point that you do not read what I’m typing or the article I’ve shared.

                • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
                  61·
                  2 years ago

                  I think that no amount of verification or technical details would satisfy you, because you could simply turn around and say, “well that might have been the case on the day is was verified, but what about the day after?” or “why should we trust the independent auditor?” In other words, you are just trolling. If you are the one claiming they are not trustworthy, despite them having an almost flawless reputation, then the onus is on you to provide evidence to back up your claims, not the other way around.

                • equalszero@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
                  3·
                  2 years ago

                  You should have “How do I know if they are not keeping logs of my IP address connections”

                  Your IP address does not always relate to you, either because you are using a public wifi(that you can bypass the payment portal thanks to mullvad btw) or on top of tor etc.

                  Your ISP is also a company, and as I said above you should not share your private information with them if possible and legal in your country.

                  They also claim:

                  When a customer connects to a VPN server, the server asks the central service to validate the account number, whether or not the account has any remaining time, if the account has reached its allowed number of connections, and so on. Everything is performed in temporary memory only; none of this information is permanently stored to disk

                  Which I have to guess is true for all the police raids they had that left the police with 0 evidence.

                  Ask specific questions, and be nice to others. You won’t learn much here otherwise, and if you know everything, why even post?

                  I do not advocate for mullvad, there are many other companies that are valid choices. That’s why I posted this to learn what others use or maybe some that are not even listed by torrentfreaks not to argue about the no-log policy of Mullvad.