I very rarely use a VPN, so when I do it’s Proton Free 
For the free version. What is the throughput speed like? 
I would have no home use for it, but Airport/hotel wifi tends to be slow anyway, so maybe I don’t need a fast VPN. Can you do a speed test?
It’s noticeably slower, and the only servers are based in Netherlands 
Japan 
and USA 
so your distance from those could make it slower. That said, it’s never been so slow for me that I’ve given up, even on slow sketchy WiFi.
I have the Android app on my phone, and on my laptop I’m using protonvpn-cli from the AUR (I’ve only used the CLI, never the GUI app).
There’s more information here:
You have to set up an account with Proton, so they will hold whatever info you give them.
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Damn you found me! I need to start putting tape over my webcam 
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Is this a fact? Does Sweden have greater privacy laws? If I were to choose a Mullvad server in Sweden would the Swedish laws cover my privacy too?
From what or whom do you want protection? Mullvad do not store logs, and you can pay for it in cash (even from abroad I think, via post), so the information available for an attacker is limited to begin with. As for whether or not you’re protected from Government intervention, forcing Mullvad to log your activity, as with what happened with Proton recently, I don’t know. If you’re looking for that kind of protection I’m not sure there’s a VPN worth using. Laws do not seem to apply, regardless of where you are, if the government looking for you is important enough.
Relevant Darknet Diaries episode.
As for the question about your data, Swedish law would of course be applicable to it if it is hosted on Swedish soil. But as I said above, it depends on who are and who you’re hiding from. The laws protected the founders of TPB for quite some time, but eventually the American threats were sufficient to bend them.
Mullvad is the best IMO.
No account tied to personal details, and you can generate infinite random accounts and pay with bitcoin on a monthly basis with a fresh account every month.
Quick, simple, and it’s fast 
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Agreed but things can always change so you’ll have to keep your eyes open.
It is also half the price of Proton.
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I use Surfshark, because its the cheapest. I use it… to torrent linux ISOs, yes.
I dont see any general/sweeping security or privacy benefits from a VPN for me personally, so I just need a VPN to connect to swiss servers for ISO torrenting and for connecting to something where someone that i dont trust could see my IP; e.g. new Teamspeak server. Neither of those cases would justify an expensive VPN service, the cheapest one with access to servers where I can be sure enough that no logs will be requested by anyone is sufficient.
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I cannot resist the comment. that is first best thing i read this year. using mozilla vpn to support them is an amazing gesture.
Even nearly after 15 years when i see the installation guides of OpenVPN it is still scary. Is there a simpler guide to run OpenVPN on a VPS located in another country, so that i can use it from my desktop.
It would only cover data stored on Swedish soil and it would depend. Companies in Sweden arent exempt from being forced by the government to hand over information. Sweden just has a higher minimum bar and more laws governing what is reasonably considered private information you have some form of control over. Generally you have to have a very good reason to get user data vs the United States for instance where for a while the FBI actually skipped all the red tape and just bought it from the likes of Google and Facebook as its cheap to get for instance.
Sweden isnt a magic bullet and your online practices are much more important to your privacy than the location of your VPN provider. If youre doing illegal things there arent many places you can go that governments of the world wont be willing to hand you over or that a given government wont be able to get you eventually and those places that wont might not be places you want to be.
Good collection of different laws that may and may not affect Mullvad
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Quick question, i’d appreciate any help and quick guide since i’m super busy for proper research now…
What i need is:
- Relatively Fast VPN
- Don’t care about privacy, since it’s not existent and that’s not my goal here
- No BLOAT
- FOSS
- I don’t need it to run constantly for all connections, just for specific programs on demand
I assume that WireGuard is a way to go, since it’s in Kernel, can someone give an example of how would i run some specific program through it?
This maybe ?
Not sure if it checks all the boxes though. I have only used the Android application and it can use Wireguard and has a tunneling function for just letting certain app to use the VPN. Don’t know if the Linux’ app has both of these functionalities as well.
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Mullvad supports split tunneling and Wireguard for 5 connections. You can use more connections with OpenVPN. Don’t know if that has a limit.
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Private Internet Access (PIA) works pretty well, and has what seems to be reasonable speed. Cheaper than lots of them, and allows up to 10 connections (your multiple machines, a phone, tablets etc).
Has been bought by an outfit with a questionable past, but seems not to have changed - and was part of the project to get Wireguard going for Linux.
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