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For those looking to migrate away from Mullvad VPN, what are some alternatives that the community recommends? (reddthat.com)

submitted 6 hours ago by somereaduser@reddthat.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've heard a lot about AirVPN, but it doesn't have an app on Fdroid or anything. Yes you can download it directly from their site, but that is a little cumbersome.

Another option I'm considering is Windscribe.One major knock against it (and the same thing for AirVPN) is that htere is no tutorial available for installing the wireguard version on openwrt.

I really don't know enough about these. Windscribe has been sort of tested in court (again that was in Greece, and they don't have the same might of an authoritarian state as the US or some place), so that's a plus.

I don't know, I'm so confused that it sort of makes sense to stick with Mullvad at times.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

OpenVPN on a VPS from Njalla paid for in Monero

I'm not being silly (other than that I'm a freakin' tinfoil hat compared to most people)

This is my actual setup.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Depends on your reason for using a VPN. Presumably your Njalla VPS has a static IP address. I like being able to rotate servers if one is being blocked by a given service (ie YouTube).

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Seconding electric nan's comment. There is a valid use case for that model IMO, but it also ties your identity to a different fixed IP. Maybe if you were PERFECT about opsec it wouldn't tie to your ID, but in practice nobody is going to be. That's nearly impossible in today's tracking centric world. So data brokers will learn user X has IP Y, nobody else uses that IP, so other connections from IP Y are probably user X too.

There's a benefit to sharing an IP with many other ppl and rotating the IP around. There are drawbacks too ofc.

[–] a_postmodern_hat@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Why OpenVPN and not something like wg out of interest?