I use air for torrents and mullvad (with their doh and https proxy) for everything else. Air came out to like ~$2-3 a month on a three year sub and mullvad is a flat $5 a month. Air goes through a gift card that’s not really anonymous but it doesn’t matter. Mullvad gets send a hundred dollar bill in an envelope with a number about every year or so.
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Mullvad is pretty decent.. i use that from time to time but I have no idea about torrenting. I don't do that on my own connections.
I sent them cash payment in an envelope with my account number written on a sticky note inside once and they actually credited my account.
yeah they're pretty legit.. i used XMR to pay them.. usually takes about 5 minutes after the payment and boom, account active
I've heard good things about AirVPN, but I still have some time left on my PIA subscription, so I haven't tried it yet.
They allow torrenting, have port forwarding and contribute to open source software projects.
Avoid PIA, it's a decent service for a reasonable price but it's an Israeli company. I didn't know that when I bought a 3.3 year subscription.
AirVPN has port forwarding. If you're using it for torrenting they're a good choice. You can have several reserved ports I think, just make sure to set your client to the port you get.
They often have sales so around and through the 1-4th of July they might have a "summer" sale or something. Black Friday is another time they always have sales. On sale you can probably get 2 years for $90 so you might want to consider buying only 6 months or something at this time and then re-upping during the sale.
I'll state for the record that I don't think any VPN should be trusted for truly sensitive things that interest intelligence agencies. If you're an activist you should consider using a VPN plus tor or l2p but if you're just using this website it's probably fine.
Airvpn has port forwarding.
proton has a 99usd/yr package, for their VPN (port forwarding, the works), cloud storage (500gb+10gb per year subscribed), email (infinite autogenerated aliases, a bunch of dedicated addresses), and really good password manager with 2fa integrated.
you'd save about 60 USD, and get a whole bunch of other stuff in addition.