opinions on hide.me free VPN? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello! I recently set up my first home server, and would like to set up qbittorrent on it. I tried using protonVPN, which is what I use on desktop, but got rate limited because torrenting on the free plan is not allowed. What do you think of hide.me vpn? it has a CLI linux version, I think I can install it inside the docker container and set up a killswitch (that should be built in? at least that's what they say) to torrent safely.

I know paid VPNs are better and also pretty cheap, but I cannot afford one right now. Any tips?

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[-] TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago

Nord vpn sucks ass

[-] BiggestBulb@kbin.run 0 points 9 months ago

I'm curious to hear why you think that, I've been using it for a year and it's better than ExpressVPN by a long-shot. Very few connectivity problems either and it has a Linux client....

[-] TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

Because there are VPN's that dont log your activity such as protonVPN and mulvad.

[-] BiggestBulb@kbin.run -2 points 9 months ago

Neither does Nord: https://support.nordvpn.com/General-info/Features/1047407432/Do-you-store-any-logs.htm

[-] TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

Well, they comply with law enforcment.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/nordvpn-actually-we-do-comply-with-law-enforcement-data-requests

[-] BiggestBulb@kbin.run -1 points 9 months ago

Even in that article it says the only info they can provide (due to the no-logging) is payment info and email address.

If you're doing something illegal and use a credit card attached to your name to do it, Nord is going to hand over your credit card info and they'll know you did it through their VPN.

Likewise, if you do something illegal with their VPN and use your personal email, same thing.

That being said, I don't personally use the VPN for anything illegal. If you do, I suppose you should probably either self-host or just Mull, but in my case I like Nord's Killswitch and Mull's is notorious for dropping off.

[-] man@links.hackliberty.org 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

is payment info and email address.

I think you still dont get it. Most poeple in this community pirate, which is illegal in most contries.

Most people here want privacy, meaning a vpn that doesnt give away payment info, and other PII. Because of that, there are very few safe vpn's out there.