The best thing is that they accept crypto. I wouldn't want to pay for a VPN with a credit card in my name.

But you have to get money into your crypto wallet somehow, which makes it relatively easy to deanonymize for most users (serious crypto privacy enthusiasts could of course pay cash for their crypto or perhaps mine it themselves) if they're looking at your traffic specifically, but hard if you're only worried about bulk collection.

IMO the coolest privacy option they have is to literally mail them an envelope full of cash with just your account's cash payment ID.

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jopsen 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I wouldn't want to pay for a VPN with a credit card in my name.

Wow, you must be using the VPN for some seriously shady stuff.

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ssl-3 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Back when I was doing that uber-shady business of torrenting, and this kind of VPN was much less-common than it is today, I paid for VPN access with crypto.

I'd gather a small amount of that up (however I did that), keep it in an offline wallet, and spend it on VPN service every now and then.

It just seemed like the right way to go about things.

(And then I lost that wallet, because of course I did, with about $14 worth of BTC in it. I didn't care enough at that time to see if I'd backed it up properly; I wasn't planning on using it for anything anymore anyway. That was in 2014 and those backups are waaaay gone now, but it'd be around $2k worth of BTC today -- plenty to buy some DDR5 RAM. Whoopsie-doodle!)

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vpShane 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Enough to buy like 512MB of DDR5 RAM maybe

	▲	ssl-3 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		...then I'll just have to learn how to get stuff done with 512MB of RAM. (I'm sure that browsers like lynx still work just like they did in 2001, and that pine can still read mail. Shouldn't be a problem, right?)

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someNameIG 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What actual extra privacy does that add though? You still need to connect to them from your IP address, which can be traced back to you.