Which VPNs are people using that actually care about the user's privacy? Most of them don't, sell their home IP to buyers, sell their DNS history to others, etc. Worse, some of them could require invasive MITM cert stuff most users will just click yes through.

I have yet to see a use case for VPNs for the casual internet audience, and for a tech savvy user, their better off renting through some datacenter or something, which at that point is hardly a VPN and more home IP obfuscation. All the same downsides, and at least you get real privacy.

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traceroute66 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Which VPNs are people using that actually care about the user's privacy?

Mullvad.

It has been proven in a court of law that when Mullvad says "no logging", they mean it.

They also regularly have security audits and publish the results[2][3]

[1]https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-sea... [2]https://mullvad.net/en/blog/new-security-audit-of-account-an... [3]https://mullvad.net/en/blog/successful-security-assessment-o...

	▲	monista an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don't use the VPN, but I still happily use their privacy-oriented (Firefox-based) Mullvad browser. https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/
	▲	thisisnow 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Second for Mullvad, I am quite distrusting in general but more I know about Mullvad, more I am convinced they really are serious about user privacy

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evilduck 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Using any popular datacenter's IP range for a personal VPN is likely to be outright blocked.

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Imustaskforhelp 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Also you only get 1 IP so its not really anonymous and you definitely would have a fingerprint.

	▲	thisisnow 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		you just rotate it?

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lxgr 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm forced to use a VPN to occasionally check my US bank account, since a foreign IP address is obviously a harbinger of unspeakable evil (while the friendly Youtube advertised neighborhood VPN is obviously evidence of pure intentions).

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gruez 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Most of them don't, sell their home IP to buyers, sell their DNS history to others, etc. Worse, some of them could require invasive MITM cert stuff most users will just click yes through.

Source? I haven't seen any evidence that the major paid VPN providers engage in any of those things. At best it's vague implications something shady is happening because one of the key people was previously at [shady organization].

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Imustaskforhelp 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

ProtonVPN with bitcoin which you get from a monero swap is a good idea for complete privacy if you want port forwarding.

MullvadVPN is also another great one.

I have heard some good things about AirVPN, but I can absolutely attest for mullvad and to a degree ProtonVPN (Just with Proton, depending upon your threat model, do make the necessary precautions like buying with monero for example)

There are others, but mostly its the 2-3 that I trust.