okey, lets switch topics: #vpn recommendations? this market appears quite crowded and hard to dig through ... if this phrase makes sense here.
@milan Mullvad probably
@Bart_Wux
Is it possible to use a generic VPN client instead of their "app"?
I'm currently using VPNunlimited after getting a "lifetime" subscription for 60€ or so (single payment), a few years ago. I had to write to them and ask, but they did send me a list of openVPN config files, which I now use on all my devices. Not necessarily recommending them, but if I ever switch I'd like to get something like that, preferably without having to ask.
@milan @gargron @t_aus_m
@Mr_Teatime @Bart_Wux @milan @t_aus_m Yeah, it works with Wireguard
@Mr_Teatime @milan @gargron @t_aus_m
I have actually never used Mullvad's app. I haven't even seen it.
My first contact to Mullvad was with pfSense and OpenVPN. pfSense is pretty ball-busting to set up, but it works fine.
I later switched to Wireguard, for 2 reasons:
- perfomance
- ports
Wireguard allows port-forwards to be bound to certain keys and thus to certain machines on my end. So if I were to connect with my phone, the ports are sill forwarded to my server and not my phone.
@Bart_Wux @milan @Gargron Not completely true. They can log the IP you use to connect to Mullvad, and the sites / IP addresses you connect to. They can also cross reference your IP with previously generated accounts to link them together. And then if you have used a non-private payment method on any account that they can link together, they have the ability to link one person to their traffic.
I’m not saying they do that, but they certainly can log useful information that they can link to you as an individual, even across multiple accounts. I still use Mullvad though, since they do their best to make it possible to make logging useless (ie if you connected to Mullvad using another VPN / connected to another VPN after Mullvad, you would basically be untraceable to any VPN provider).