Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chinese ownership

Re:Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chin... by kristofferR on Sunday November 25, 2018 @08:17AM (#18526753)

What's the best free peer-to-peer VPN?

Not a VPN that supports P2P filesharing, but a VPN where the users are the "servers", like Hola used to be before it started sucking (can't even select country now without paying).

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Re:Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chin... by Kaveren on Sunday November 25, 2018 @08:43AM (#18526826)

I wouldn't recommend using one. P2P VPNs are great for people to commit crimes with, so unless every time your VPN is off, you want to be solving reCAPTCHAs all day, and not be able to make a purchase online, I would avoid it.

P2P VPNs don't offer much in the way of privacy, decentralization is only better in theory here. For unblocking services, many normal VPNs can do this fine as well.

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Re:Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chin... by nawtacawp on Sunday November 25, 2018 @08:51AM (#18526853)

https://www.torproject.org

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Re:Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chin... by stordoff on Sunday November 25, 2018 @11:45AM (#18527546)

> a VPN where the users are the "servers"

Is this really something desirable? It seems like it would be asking for somebody to commit crimes using your connection (without the plausible deniability/justification that you are running a VPN company).

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