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Re:Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend? by darkblackcorner on Thursday August 18, 2016 @07:27AM (#12311629)
I use https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ on recommendation from a colleague, and I'm pretty happy. No logs, plenty servers, no real issues, and they recently shut down their Russian server due to imminent privacy concerns. So I feel that they have their priorities straight.

I used https://www.frootvpn.com/ briefly when it was free - seemed ok too, but not many servers back then.

Depends really what you want to use it for, but you could look into something like https://www.zerotier.com/ or even hosting your own.

This might be useful for more in depth comparisons: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/

Re:Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend? by jay-saint on Thursday August 18, 2016 @08:20AM (#12311902)
+1 for PIA UK exit nodes work for watching BBC. Plus as a bonus they have recently implemented an option that block ads and malware on a DNS level. There are apps for iOS, macOS and Windows. It can also work without the app and be setup on a router level to protect the entire network.
Re:Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend? by deanclatworthy on Thursday August 18, 2016 @08:41AM (#12312007)
PIA has said they actively won't be circumventing geoblocks anymore. Last time I tried BBC was blocked on both London & Southampton (in the last 24hrs).

EDIT: It seems iPlayer is now working again, although if you check their forums from when they began this change in policy, they specifically stated they would not actively circumvent the blocks.

Re:Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend? by anexprogrammer on Thursday August 18, 2016 @08:23AM (#12311924)
They seem to have some ongoing issues with their client - there have been speed issues with the last couple of releases, on Windows at least.

I've had to regress to an earlier version or I get DNS timeouts galore with v60. There's quite a few open threads on their forums about this.

Aside from that, their IPs seem to regularly get hit with Cloudflare captcha. Usually, but not always, switching to a different exit will fix, for a while at least.

I've not found anyone better though.

Re:Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend? by darkblackcorner on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:11AM (#12312563)
I didn't like their client so switched to using the OpenVPN client instead: https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html
Re:Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend? by aphextron on Friday August 19, 2016 @04:58PM (#12323417)
>No logs

Don't kid yourself. They are logging everything, and would be completely negligent not to.

Re:Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend? by vollmond on Monday August 22, 2016 @09:31AM (#12336168)
Why would it be negligent?
Re:Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend? by prophet_ on Thursday August 18, 2016 @07:28AM (#12311633)
I use PIA and I can't complain. One issue I noticed that may affect others as well is that they are being blocked more and more around the internet. I don't think this is only a PIA problem though.
Re:Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend? by Klathmon on Thursday August 18, 2016 @07:49AM (#12311725)
Yeah I love PIA, but i've found several sites that outright block you in very "opaque" ways (my favorite is one that says the site is down for emergency maintenance when you connect from a PIA VPN IP).

It sucks, but I think PIA (and others) are going to need to start using different IPs and getting around these blocks if they want to stay competitive.

Re:Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend? by deanclatworthy on Thursday August 18, 2016 @08:42AM (#12312011)
It definitely is a problem with PIA. And furthermore, they have said they won't be circumventing the geoblocks, as they have done before.