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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59202834

On matters like VPN providers, DNS providers, and similar topics, often one would like to find websites with recommendations and reviews from other people, especially testers or "experts". But it's SO difficult to find trustworthy websites! The vast majority appearing on searchers are clearly built by untrustworthy parties, or biased by commissions. A good one is https://www.privacyguides.org/ Do you know of any other good, trustworthy ones?

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Thank you. They do say that they get commissions, but I found some interesting VPNs there. Had never heard of Windscribe, and it sounded interesting. Luckily this post gave an important warning about it.

Best option may actually be to do a search on VPN opinions here on Lemmy...

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Opinions will vary. For instance, I've been torrenting with Windscribe with no issues since before that post was made and would still recommend it, so...

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Their service was genuinely good for the short time I used it. You'll note in my post that I would still recommend it to anyone who doesn't plan on doing more than average browsing and light torrenting.

They just wanted an excuse to cut me off since I made more use of it than the average person likely does, and their 'unlimited' advertising means you can't actually know what their real limits are.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Someone must have pissed in their cereal that day or something. Just checked my monthly data and it certainly isn't low. Happy the new VPN is working for you though!

[–] milk@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

With that kind of usage you may get banned so just watch out.

As recently as this month https://old.reddit.com/r/Windscribe/comments/1q5py5w/how_much_is_too_much/

That said, I agree that windscribe is great. If your usage is less than say 10tb per month you're probably fine. I regularly do a couple terabytes and no problems. Plus they have port forwarding, and even port forwarding without a static ip

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Absolutely. I've heard other positive user comments on Windscribe.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

For what it's worth, I've been enjoying the heck out of AirVPN since then, with absolutely no issues.

[–] Ankkuli@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

It’s very slow compared to other VPNs.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Thank you for the updates! I agree that they should simply state a clear data limit, given that they have one. One of my concerns about them is their being based in Canada, Five Eyes. Although I wonder how's the Five Eyes situation now, given the present political storm.

[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

There's a map of how VPN companies are connected which may influence your decision too Link with sources and contributor details

https://kumu.io/Windscribe/vpn-relationships

Old link https://windscribe.com/vpnmap

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Isnt it a bit suspicious this map is hosted by another vpn provider?

[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The actual original map with contributor and sources is here https://kumu.io/Windscribe/vpn-relationships

I will update original

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago
[–] Mttw_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

rtings provide actual overall tests: https://www.rtings.com/vpn/tests/changelogs

and you can sort reviews based on your major factor: https://www.rtings.com/vpn/reviews/

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

This was another good one, thanks!

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm not sure how trustworthy it is nowadays, I think there was some controversy back in the day, but: https://thatoneprivacysite.xyz/

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

I saw they spreadsheet was last updated 2020. Wonder what happened to them.

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

Has that URL been confirmed as official? It was initially setup as a mirror of the original (with different donation info) and the main page says it was last updated in 2019.