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Hakim recently promoted Atlas VPN in one of his videos. If you have tried it, what has been your experience with it? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by CyberGhost@lemmygrad.ml to c/thedeprogram@lemmygrad.ml

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It is 1.85 dollars a month if one pays for 3 years. I am looking into ways of saving money so I was thinking into switching. However, I am a bit worried since 3 years ago I did the same with Nord VPN and it is sooo buggy. It rarely ever works for me. I had to switch to ProtonVPN after paying for 3 years for Nord 💀.

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[–] DeHuq2@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well they usually have a small selection of slower free servers and a lot of faster ones locked behind a premium wall. Does this not substitute as profit for them?

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Depends on the provider, but probably they would be analyzing the traffic of the free users the very most to profit off of them. Maybe they're trying to convert them to paying users, maybe they're selling the data, and it could be tricky to figure out which.

The "free" servers aren't free, they have some specific reason why it's profitable for them to run servers where users aren't paying with money. They're capitalists.

[–] DeHuq2@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And what would prevent paid VPNs from selling data to have even bigger profits? Its all a gamble, be it free VPN or not.

In the end of the day I just want to pay less

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a gamble if you haven't done research into which VPN providers are trustworthy. r/VPN has a decent comparison table (maybe there's a good community on the fediverse? I haven't checked). You can find discounts for VPN providers from that table that seem trustworthy to you at r/vpncoupons (not aware of a fediverse replacement for that either).

The privacy-friendly VPN providers have one thing in common: they're all paid, afaik.

[–] DeHuq2@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the link 👍

But I am a little concerned that the most popular VPNs rank the highest

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

True, any table like that could certainly be biased. There's other comparisons out there, like the one on Wikipedia. Tables like that are only a starting point, ofc, it's up to you to decide who you trust.