YSK about VPNBook, a free service that guarantees you anonymity no matter where you go, without compromising your speed

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VPN Book

I don’t know how it works, but this is the description

Our Free VPN (Virtual Private Network) server is designed with the latest technologies and most advanced cryptographic techniques to keep you safe on the internet from prying eyes and hackers. Our VPN securely routing all your internet traffic through an encrypted tunnel to bypass government censorship, defeat corporate surveillance and monitoring by your ISP. VPNBook strives to keep the internet a safe and free place by providing free and secure PPTP and OpenVPN service access for everyone.

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How do you know it isn’t run by the RIAA, mpaa, and the US government?

How does it get paid for?

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In case anyone else is looking into this:

Rumor has is that VPNBook stores logs of data transferred. Not sure if there is any merit to that, but it’s something to keep an eye out for. If y’all care to know. I might give it a try, though. I’ve seen a lot of positive (if very cautious) feedback about it.

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I don’t know who coined this phrase originally, but it’s appropriate here: If you’re not paying for a service, you’re what’s being sold.

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I use anonine which costs me 34kr (4 euro a month) and it goes up to 11MBps

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People get all up in arms that these could be run by some government agency. The paid ones could be too, dont be dumb and you will be fine.

Good find!

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Anonymous browsing! Just log in…

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Lol, totally not run by the feds.

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NSA, FBI and CIA at work, set up fake company and get information

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As /u/blessheimPlate said, donations and ads. Now, I didn’t notice any extra ads while browsing, so I’m assuming that it replaces some of the ads on websites with its own ads. I’m sure it’s possible. Megaupload did this in the past with Megakey.

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On the site it says it gets paid for by advertisements and donations.

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It is. A VPN will add overhead to every single transaction. This may or may not be significant but it will not be zero.

However with that said, It’s More Complicated Than That because you’re splitting one slow link in two; one marginally slower link and one much, much faster link. Also there is the possibility of aggregating and/or compressing traffic.

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My internet connection gives me 300 kBps without this thing. Same with it.

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if very cautious

Link please. I saw only positive feedback, so I need to know what I missed!

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VPNBook’s review shows some pretty impressive speeds.

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My username shall be… BunnyStrider.

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Why would they bother? Facebook gather more info on us in a day than all the Federal agencies can do in a year. All they have to do is place a packet sniffer on one of the main Internet trunks near Google or Facebook and they’re set. Figures, the one time they save some money is when we don’t want them to do something.

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It’s interesting that you think it being Romanian makes it solid. I would think the total opposite. A lot of computer related fraud and theft comes out of Romania.

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I’m just suspicious about organizations that say ‘hey- do all of your questionable stuff over here. We promise not to tell anyone’. Mostly because if I was in the policing business that’s what I would do.