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    Ariskotos

    My POV as a newbie here

    As a long time GNU/Linux enthusiast & evangelist I am very privacy & net neutrality concerned, and care a lot about the software I run. Eddie is the very first VPN client I happily run on my Manjaro box. Though I still enjoy personally adding & managing VPN configurations thru the Network Connection Manager, I now see why a VPN client might be interesting: Eddie simply works out of the box and does not make a GNU/Linux user feel a 2nd class citizen (eg, network lock feature included by default), & provides detailed info on latency & load. What about transparency? Simply astonishing. In this world where money is the only religion, transparency is often an abused concept of the past. Not here. When geographic location is not mandatory, I love operating from the currently fastest server available and not overload the others.. The number of locations seems to be low and the servers number a bit odd, but it works well. A well balanced infrastructure indeed with access points in strategic places all over the world. I love the servers names! As time passes, they become close friends. What about sponsorship? The fact that the company cares about some of the most important open source projects & organizations is definitely a plus. Not to mention that the community simply looks great. Thank you!
  2. 1 point
    Fredrik Beeman

    VPNs - Caught in Lying!?!

    This is the reason i trust in you guys. I've been searching like every one says one thing "no logging". But in the end such as NordVPN, HidemyassVPN has been caught data leakage or selling private info. Not many VPN offers TOR or investing for free speech. They have VPN server in China how cool is that.
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    Staff

    VPNs - Caught in Lying!?!

    @arteryshelby We do not log and/or inspect our customers' traffic. Since 2010 you can't produce any single case, and not even the slightest clue, in which the identity of an AirVPN customer has been disclosed through traffic log and/or inspection and/or any other invasive method. It means a lot, given that various younger VPN services have been caught lying (ascertained court cases) and that AirVPN is now the oldest still active VPN service, with the exception of a minor service which anyway changed ownership twice in the last 12 years. By the way we have never asked our customers to blindly believe in our words. We do not block Tor and we even integrate its usage in our software, so you can be even safer if you can't afford to trust us OR some datacenter. For example you can use Tor over OpenVPN, to hide Tor usage to your country and ISP, and at the same time hide your traffic real origin, destination, protocol etc. to us and the datacenter the server is connected into. Last but not least, we invest a lo of money in Tor infrastructure and in 2017, 2018 and 2019 more than 2.5% of global world Tor network traffic transited on Tor exit-nodes paid by AirVPN. It is an important achievement we're proud of, and it hints to good faith. Kind regards
  4. 1 point
    Kenwell

    VPNs - Caught in Lying!?!

    Regarding the VPN service from the video type the name in the search field above. You will find your answer and the answer from staff. Have a nice one.
  5. 1 point
    OpenSourcerer

    Wirecutter Review of VPNs

    For the sake of a good review and a marketing stunt, no, probably not. What I noticed: While most of their points they explain are quite right, considering That One Privacy Site as a source and requiring public audits and server/location amount as necessary is questionable. All of Reddit knows by now that That Guy has little knowledge of the stuff he writes about and reviewed all VPN providers solely based on what they wrote on their website at that time. You really can't top that method. I could set up a VPN service promising everything under the sun on its website and for him it'd be the best VPN he'd ever witnessed. Also, The Verge. Location amount doesn't really count because faking a server location is a thing and it was proven that NordVPN for example does this. It's even possible to find out who does it for yourself, and it was even mentioned on these forums somewhere. Although, to be fair, they rule NordVPN out because of even more points. They still take warrant canaries into consideration, even though not a must. They're considered a failure, lulling people into a false sense of security and are generally thought of more like a running marketing gag. Some questionable things are their speed tests which really depend on your location and setup, server choice, used config, etc, as they correctly write. It's possible you get a much better result on many occasions, so it shouldn't be a necessity. Minor thing: The possibility to do VPN over Tor wasn't even considered, something only Eddie offers so far. Only Tor over VPN got screen time, but it gets screen time everywhere and isn't even strictly a VPN topic, no idea why it gets two full paragraphs in that article. And... hold on, what the hell is that? They can't possibly be serious. So the public audit is their one k.o. argument? And they only tested five, FIVE, providers extensively? :DDDDD
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